ἄστυ
asty
town
Appears 14 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἄστυ, τό, Ep. and Ion. gen. εος (disyll. in 7.74), Att. and Trag. εως (ἄστεος is never required by the metre, ἄστεως (trisyll.) is necessary in Or. 761, Ph. 842, El. 246, and is the only form found in Att. Inscrr., as IG 2.584.7, 22.463.76; it is a disyll. in El. 298, Ba. 840): pl., ἄστη Supp. 952; ἄστεα 1.5:—Α. town, ἄ. μέγα Πριάμοιο Il. 2.332, al.: with name in gen., Σουσίδος, Σούσων ἄ., Pers. 119, 535; ἄ. Θήβης OC 1372, Tr. 1154, etc. 2. lower town, opp. acropolis, 1.176, al. II. in Attica, town (i.e. Athens), opp. ἀγρός (country), mostly without Art., στυγῶν μὲν ἄ. Ach. 33; ἐξ ἄστεως νῦν εἰς ἀγρὸν χωρῶμεν Fr. 107; ἔγημα . . ἄγροικος ὢν ἐξ ἄστεως I married a town girl, Nu. 47; τῶν κατʼ ἄστυ πραγμάτων Georg. Fr. 4: also with Art., πρὸς τὸ ἄ. R. 327b, 328c, al. 2. Athens, opp. Phalerum or Piraeus, Smp. 172a, 20.12, Pol. 1303b12, al.; τὸ ἄστυ τῆς πόλεως, opp. Piraeus, 18; ἄρχοντος ἐν ἄστει, opp. ἐν Σαλαμῖνι, IG 2.594. 3. in Egypt, Alexandria, 1.89 (iii B. C.), s.v. ἄστυ, etc. III. town in the material sense, opp. πόλις (the civic body), Il. 17.144. IV. Adv. ἄστυδε (q. v.). (ϝάστυ, cf. ϝασστυόχος IG 5(2).77 (Tegea): gen. ϝάστιος ib.7.3170 (Orchom. Boeot.): but prob. not cogn. with Skt. uásati ‘dwell’, which has e in the root.)
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