ἀστρονομία Ancient Greek · revision 2667

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=5th century BC, Hippocratic writings|origins=grc ἄστρον, grc νομή}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (5th-century BC Attic): /as.tro.no.mí.aː/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (4th-century AD Koine): /as.tro.noˈmi.a/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (10th-century Byzantine): /as.tro.noˈmi.a/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ἀστρονομία''' (astronomía) ''f'' (genitive ἀστρονομίᾱς); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[ἄστρον|tr=ástron|t=star]] and [[νομή|tr=nomḗ|t=distribution, arrangement]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The Hippocratic treatise ''Airs, Waters, Places'' says that astronomy contributes not the least part to medicine.^(DGE)^(LSJ 1940)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Aristophanes' ''Clouds'' it may refer to a scientific instrument, and Plato uses it in the ''Symposium'' and the ''Gorgias'' for the study of the stars and their movements.^(CGL 2021)^(DGE)^(LSJ 1940) A work on the stars was ascribed to Hesiod under this title, and later commentators used it for Ptolemy's great ''Syntaxis''.^(LSJ 1940)^(DGE) Gregory of Nazianzus uses it for the astrology of the Chaldeans.^(DGE)

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+ Latin borrowed it as [[m|la|astronomia]].^(Wiktionary) Modern Greek [[m|el|αστρονομία|tr=astronomía]] is the science of the heavenly bodies.^(Triantafyllidis 1998)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 5th century BC – The Hippocratic writings name it as useful to medicine.^(DGE)^(LSJ 1940)

+ * 5th–4th century BC – Aristophanes and Plato use it.^(CGL 2021)^(LSJ 1940)

+ * 4th century BC – Eudoxus uses it.^(DGE)

+ * 4th century AD – Gregory of Nazianzus uses it for Chaldean astrology.^(DGE)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|astronomy]], the study of the stars and their movements.^(CGL 2021)^(LSJ 1940)

+ # ''(perhaps)'' An astronomical instrument.^(CGL 2021)

+ # ''(Christian writers)'' Astrology.^(DGE)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ἄστρον|tr=ástron]]

+ * [[ἀστρολογία|tr=astrología]]

+ * [[en|astronomy]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}