Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ɣastír/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ɣastír/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ɣastíɾ/

Noun

γαστήρ • ‎(gastḗr) f ‎(genitive γαστέρος or γαστρός); third declension

1. belly
2. womb
3. stomach, appetite

Usage notes

The root of γαστήρ contains an ε between τ and ρ which is often syncopated, leading to alternate forms such as genitive singular: γαστέρος and γαστρός, dative singular: γαστέρι and γαστρί, dative plural: γαστῆρσι and γαστράσι. The syncopated form is generally more common in forms with long suffixes, such as the aforementioned. The inflection table below lists the more common forms.

Inflection

References

• γαστήρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γαστήρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• γαστήρ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «γαστήρ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «γαστήρ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «γαστήρ» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• γαστήρ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1064”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • appetite idem, page 35.
  • belly idem, page 72.
  • maw idem, page 518.
  • paunch idem, page 599.
  • stomach idem, page 819.
  • womb idem, page 987.