ἀστεῖος
See also: αστείος
Ancient Greek
    
    Etymology
    
From ἄστε(ϝ) (áste(w)), the oblique stem of ἄστυ (ástu, “town”), + -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix).
Pronunciation
    
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /as.têː.os/
 - (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /asˈti.os/
 - (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /asˈti.os/
 - (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /asˈti.os/
 - (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /asˈti.os/
 
Adjective
    
ἀστεῖος • (asteîos) m (feminine ἀστείᾱ, neuter ἀστεῖον); first/second declension
Inflection
    
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | ἀστεῖος asteîos  | 
ἀστείᾱ asteíā  | 
ἀστεῖον asteîon  | 
ἀστείω asteíō  | 
ἀστείᾱ asteíā  | 
ἀστείω asteíō  | 
ἀστεῖοι asteîoi  | 
ἀστεῖαι asteîai  | 
ἀστεῖᾰ asteîa  | |||||
| Genitive | ἀστείου asteíou  | 
ἀστείᾱς asteíās  | 
ἀστείου asteíou  | 
ἀστείοιν asteíoin  | 
ἀστείαιν asteíain  | 
ἀστείοιν asteíoin  | 
ἀστείων asteíōn  | 
ἀστείων asteíōn  | 
ἀστείων asteíōn  | |||||
| Dative | ἀστείῳ asteíōi  | 
ἀστείᾳ asteíāi  | 
ἀστείῳ asteíōi  | 
ἀστείοιν asteíoin  | 
ἀστείαιν asteíain  | 
ἀστείοιν asteíoin  | 
ἀστείοις asteíois  | 
ἀστείαις asteíais  | 
ἀστείοις asteíois  | |||||
| Accusative | ἀστεῖον asteîon  | 
ἀστείᾱν asteíān  | 
ἀστεῖον asteîon  | 
ἀστείω asteíō  | 
ἀστείᾱ asteíā  | 
ἀστείω asteíō  | 
ἀστείους asteíous  | 
ἀστείᾱς asteíās  | 
ἀστεῖᾰ asteîa  | |||||
| Vocative | ἀστεῖε asteîe  | 
ἀστείᾱ asteíā  | 
ἀστεῖον asteîon  | 
ἀστείω asteíō  | 
ἀστείᾱ asteíā  | 
ἀστείω asteíō  | 
ἀστεῖοι asteîoi  | 
ἀστεῖαι asteîai  | 
ἀστεῖᾰ asteîa  | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ἀστείως asteíōs  | 
ἀστειότερος asteióteros  | 
ἀστειότᾰτος asteiótatos  | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | 
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Antonyms
    
- ἄγροικος (ágroikos)
 
Descendants
    
- Greek: αστείος (asteíos)
 
Further reading
    
- “ἀστεῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
 - “ἀστεῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
 - ἀστεῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
 - ἀστεῖος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
 - G791 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
 - Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. 
- agreeable idem, page 19.
 - bred idem, page 97.
 - charming idem, page 126.
 - civil idem, page 133.
 - complimentary idem, page 152.
 - courteous idem, page 179.
 - delightful idem, page 208.
 - elegant idem, page 265.
 - enchanting idem, page 270.
 - engaging idem, page 274.
 - exquisite idem, page 296.
 - fascinating idem, page 308.
 - fashionable idem, page 308.
 - gallant idem, page 352.
 - mannerly idem, page 512.
 - nice idem, page 557.
 - polished idem, page 625.
 - polite idem, page 625.
 - refined idem, page 684.
 - urbane idem, page 939.
 - well-bred idem, page 974.
 - wit idem, page 983.
 - witty idem, page 986.
 
 
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