ἈΣΤΥΓΕΙΤΟΝΕΣ, ἀστυγειτονες
ASTYGEITONES, astygeitones
Sounds Like: as-too-GAY-toh-nes
Translations: city-neighbors, neighbors, those dwelling near a city, a city-neighbor
From the root: ἈΣΤΥΓΕΙΤΩΝ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This is a compound word formed from 'ἄστυ' (city) and 'γείτων' (neighbor). It refers to people who live near a city or are neighbors to a city. It can be used as an adjective to describe something as being 'city-neighboring' or as a noun to refer to the 'city-neighbors' themselves.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Masculine
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 22:170
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΣΤΥΓΕΙΤΩΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΣΤΥΓΕΙΤΟΝΑΣ — neighboring, adjacent
- ἈΣΤΥΓΕΙΤΟΝΩΝ — of neighbors, of city-dwellers, of fellow-citizens
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