astus

Etymology
From, of origin, suggestions include:


 * from, - compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬;
 * from, from , thus formed to like the verb  to the adverb of the same form, with a by-form . In this case the full nominal declension is secondary;
 * from, from the common characterization of city-dwellers as more intelligent, also seen in ; however, in the latter this appears to be a Late Republican development.

A long vowel is once attested for, which would be unexpected but parallelled by. Attested since Plautus (second half of the 3d century ).

Noun

 * 1)  (by) craft, cunning, guile
 * 2)  tricks, stratagems