Astarte

• Ashtoreth

Borrowed from Latin Astarte, ultimately from Phoenician 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 (ʿAštart) via Ancient Greek Ἀστάρτη (Astártē). Doublet of Ashtoreth and Ishtar.

Astarte

1. A Semitic goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war, cognate in name, origin and function with the goddess Phoenician 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 (ʿAštart) of Phoenicia.

• atrates, tears at, tsarate

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀστάρτη (Astártē), itself from Phoenician 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 (ʿAštart).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [asˈtar.teː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [asˈtar.te]

Astartē f sg (genitive Astartēs); first declension

1. Astarte

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē), singular only.

• “Astarte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Astarte”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.