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στεῖρα

στεῖρα, a ship’s keel

στεῖρα2, that has not calved (cow); barren (woman)

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στεῖραι feminine nominative plural, feminine vocative plural of στεῖρα

στεῖραι feminine nominative plural, feminine vocative plural of στεῖρα2

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στεῖρα (A), ἡ, (στερεός)
  • forepart of a shipʼs keel, continued into the stem or cutwater, ἀμφὶ δὲ κῦμα στείρῃ πορφύρεον μεγάλʼ ἴαχε Il. 1.482, Od. 2.428: cf. στείρωμα, στερέωμα 3, στήριγμα (στείρη only in An.Ox. 3.396).
      • 2 a kind of bandage, Heliod. ap. Orib. 48.20.12.
    • II f.l. for σπεῖρα in Poll. 2.31.
στεῖρα (B), ἡ,
  • a cow or other animal that has not brought forth young, στεῖραν βοῦν . . ῥέξειν Od. 10.522; αἶγα στεῖραν PCair.Zen. 429.15 (iii B.C.).
    • II of women, barren, Diocl. Fr. 29, LXX Ge. 11.30, 25.21, Ev.Luc. 1.7, 36; Μοῖρα σ. AP 7.468 (Mel.); στείρῃσι γυναιξί Orph. L. 459; of women past childbearing, Hp. Mul. 2.127: metaph., στεῖρα διάνοια, φύσις, ψυχή, Ph. 1.441, 636, 478.
      • 2 not having had offspring, virgin, Lyc. 670, Luc. Tim. 17. (Cf. Skt. starīs ‘barren cow, heifer’, Lat. sterilis.)

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