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ἀρχιπειρατής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀρχιπειρατής

Structure: ἀρχιπειρατ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pirate-chief

Examples

  • γενομένησ δ’ ἐπ’ ὀλίγον χρόνον ναυμαχίασ οἱ Ῥόδιοι βιασάμενοι τῶν νεῶν αὐτάνδρων ἐκυρίευσαν, ἐν οἷσ ἦν καὶ Τιμοκλῆσ ὁ ἀρχιπειρατήσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 97 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. a pirate-chief

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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