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λῃστής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῃστής λῃστοῦ

Structure: λῃστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: lhi/zomai

Sense

  1. robber, bandit
  2. pirate, buccaneer
  3. revolutionary, insurrectionist, guerrilla

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τίσ γὰρ πιστεύσει εὐζώνῳ λῃστῇ σφαλλομένῳ ἐκ πόλεωσ εἰσ πόλιν̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 36:26)
  • οὐδὲ σιδήρου ἐκεῖνόσ γε δεήσεται, ἀλλ’ ἤν, τε χαλκὸν ἤν τε χρυσὸν ἀναθῇσ, ἄλλοισ μέν ποτε κτῆμα καὶ ἑρ́μαιον ἔσῃ ἀνατεθεικώσ, Φωκεῦσιν ἢ Βοιωτοῖσ ἢ Δελφοῖσ αὐτοῖσ ἤ τινι τυράννῳ ἢ λῃστῇ, τῷ δὲ θεῷ ὀλίγον μέλει τῶν σῶν χρυσοποιιῶν. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 12:24)
  • καίτοι τῷ μὲν λῃστῇ παρέχει τινὰσ ὅμωσ ἡδονὰσ τό τε κέρδοσ καὶ τὸ ἀνιᾶν τὸν ἐχθρόν· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 37:2)
  • εἰ γὰρ δὴ συνασπίζειν ἐβούλοντο ἀλλήλοισ, οὔτε Καρχηδονίοισ ὑπῆρξεν ἂν καταστρέψασθαι ἐπελθοῦσι τὴν πλείστην αὐτῶν ἐκ περιουσίασ, καὶ ἔτι πρότερον Τυρίοισ, εἶτα Κελτοῖσ οἳ νῦν Κελτίβηρεσ καὶ Βήρωνεσ καλοῦνται, οὔτε τῷ λῃστῇ Οὐριάθῳ καὶ Σερτωρίῳ μετὰ ταῦτα καὶ εἴ τινεσ ἕτεροι δυναστείασ ἐπεθύμησαν μείζονοσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 4 10:4)

Synonyms

  1. robber

  2. pirate

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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