FromAncient Greekἄστρον(ástron,“star”).
astrum n (genitiveastrī);second declension
- (poetic)star,constellation
- Synonyms:astēr,stēlla,sīdus
8CE,
Ovid,
Fasti2.117–118:
- astrīs delphīna recēpit Iuppiter
- Jupiter admitted the dolphinto the constellations
Second-declension noun (neuter).
- “astrum”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “astrum”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "astrum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- astrum inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- the star-lit sky; the firmament:caelum astris distinctum et ornatum
- “astrum”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1854, 1857),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
