λῃστής
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ληΐς (lēḯs), Epic form of λεία (leía, “plunder, spoils”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lɛːi̯s.tɛ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /lesˈtes/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /lisˈtis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /lisˈtis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /lisˈtis/
Noun
λῃστής • (lēistḗs) m (genitive λῃστοῦ); first declension
(Attic)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ λῃστής ho lēistḗs |
τὼ λῃστᾱ́ tṑ lēistā́ |
οἱ λῃσταί hoi lēistaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λῃστοῦ toû lēistoû |
τοῖν λῃσταῖν toîn lēistaîn |
τῶν λῃστῶν tôn lēistôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λῃστῇ tôi lēistêi |
τοῖν λῃσταῖν toîn lēistaîn |
τοῖς λῃσταῖς toîs lēistaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν λῃστήν tòn lēistḗn |
τὼ λῃστᾱ́ tṑ lēistā́ |
τοὺς λῃστᾱ́ς toùs lēistā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῃστᾰ́ lēistá |
λῃστᾱ́ lēistā́ |
λῃσταί lēistaí | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Synonyms
Further reading
- λῃστής in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λῃστής in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λῃστής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3027 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- λῃστής in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bandit idem, page 61.
- brigand idem, page 98.
- buccaneer idem, page 102.
- corsair idem, page 176.
- depredator idem, page 213.
- desperado idem, page 216.
- filibuster idem, page 319.
- freebooter idem, page 344.
- marauder idem, page 513.
- pirate idem, page 614.
- plunderer idem, page 622.
- privateer idem, page 642.
- ravaged idem, page 674.
- ravisher idem, page 674.
- robber idem, page 719.
- spoiler idem, page 803.
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