sidero-

¹ American  

especially before a vowel, sider-

1. a combining form meaning “iron,” used in the formation of compound words.

   siderolite.

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sidero- ² American  

1. a combining form meaning “star,” “constellation,” used in the formation of compound words.

   siderostat.

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sidero- British  

combining form

1. indicating iron

   siderolite

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Etymology

Origin of sidero-¹

< Greek sidēro-, combining form of sídēros iron

Origin of sidero-¹

< Latin sīder- (stem of sīdus ) star-group + -o-

Example Sentences

A £800m plan by UK company Minoan for five holiday villages and three golf courses at Cavo Sidero, one of the most remote and ecologically fragile areas of Crete, has been condemned by ecologists and historians and is being fought through the courts.

From The Guardian

He buries the dead in a makeshift cemetery on a hill near his village of Sidero.

From Time

Its north-eastern extremity, Cape Sidero, is distant about 110 m. from Cape Krio in Asia Minor, the interval being partly filled by the islands of Carpathos and Rhodes; its north-western, Cape Grabusa, is within 60 m. of Cape Malea in the Morea.

From Project Gutenberg

Then Sidero whispered again her evil counsels into the ear of Salmoneus, and he shut up Tyro, so that she might not see the light of the sun or hear the voice of man.

From Project Gutenberg

There was none to plead for Tyro and her helpless children, for her mother, Alkidike, was dead, and Salmoneus had taken the iron-hearted Sidero to be his wife.

From Project Gutenberg