astrum

From Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.trum/, [ˈäs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.trum/, [ˈäst̪rum]

astrum n (genitive astrī); second declension

1. (poetic) star, constellation

   Synonyms: astēr, stēlla, sīdus

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.117–118:

     astrīs delphīna recēpit Iuppiter

     Jupiter admitted the dolphin to the constellations

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• (star): stēlla

• astreāns

• “astrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “astrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• astrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• astrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the star-lit sky; the firmament: caelum astris distinctum et ornatum
    
• “astrum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly