ὕστατος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away”), which would make it cognate with English out.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hýs.ta.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)ys.ta.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈys.ta.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈys.ta.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈis.ta.tos/
Adjective
ὕστᾰτος • (hústătos) m (feminine ὑστάτη, neuter ὕστᾰτον); first/second declension
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | ὕστᾰτος hústătos |
ὑστᾰ́τη hustắtē |
ὕστᾰτον hústăton |
ὑστᾰ́τω hustắtō |
ὑστᾰ́τᾱ hustắtā |
ὑστᾰ́τω hustắtō |
ὕστᾰτοι hústătoi |
ὕστᾰται hústătai |
ὕστᾰτᾰ hústătă | |||||
| Genitive | ὑστᾰ́του hustắtou |
ὑστᾰ́της hustắtēs |
ὑστᾰ́του hustắtou |
ὑστᾰ́τοιν hustắtoin |
ὑστᾰ́ταιν hustắtain |
ὑστᾰ́τοιν hustắtoin |
ὑστᾰ́των hustắtōn |
ὑστᾰ́των hustắtōn |
ὑστᾰ́των hustắtōn | |||||
| Dative | ὑστᾰ́τῳ hustắtōi |
ὑστᾰ́τῃ hustắtēi |
ὑστᾰ́τῳ hustắtōi |
ὑστᾰ́τοιν hustắtoin |
ὑστᾰ́ταιν hustắtain |
ὑστᾰ́τοιν hustắtoin |
ὑστᾰ́τοις hustắtois |
ὑστᾰ́ταις hustắtais |
ὑστᾰ́τοις hustắtois | |||||
| Accusative | ὕστᾰτον hústăton |
ὑστᾰ́την hustắtēn |
ὕστᾰτον hústăton |
ὑστᾰ́τω hustắtō |
ὑστᾰ́τᾱ hustắtā |
ὑστᾰ́τω hustắtō |
ὑστᾰ́τους hustắtous |
ὑστᾰ́τᾱς hustắtās |
ὕστᾰτᾰ hústătă | |||||
| Vocative | ὕστᾰτε hústăte |
ὑστᾰ́τη hustắtē |
ὕστᾰτον hústăton |
ὑστᾰ́τω hustắtō |
ὑστᾰ́τᾱ hustắtā |
ὑστᾰ́τω hustắtō |
ὕστᾰτοι hústătoi |
ὕστᾰται hústătai |
ὕστᾰτᾰ hústătă | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ὑστᾰ́τως hustắtōs |
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Further reading
- “ὕστατος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὕστατος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὕστατος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὕστατος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὕστατος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- concluding idem, page 155.
- extreme idem, page 298.
- final idem, page 320.
- hind idem, page 400.
- last idem, page 477.
- latest idem, page 478.
- valedictory idem, page 942.
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1103