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λῃστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῃστικός λῃστική λῃστικόν

Structure: λῃστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. inclined to rob, piratical, buccaneering, piracy, a band of robbers
  2. in the manner of pirates;

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative λῃστικός λῃστική λῃστικόν
Genitive λῃστικοῦ λῃστικῆς λῃστικοῦ
Dative λῃστικῷ λῃστικῇ λῃστικῷ
Accusative λῃστικόν λῃστικήν λῃστικόν
Vocative λῃστικέ λῃστική λῃστικόν
DualN/A/V λῃστικώ λῃστικᾱ́ λῃστικώ
G/D λῃστικοῖν λῃστικαῖν λῃστικοῖν
PluralNominative λῃστικοί λῃστικαί λῃστικά
Genitive λῃστικῶν λῃστικῶν λῃστικῶν
Dative λῃστικοῖς λῃστικαῖς λῃστικοῖς
Accusative λῃστικούς λῃστικᾱ́ς λῃστικά
Vocative λῃστικοί λῃστικαί λῃστικά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective λῃστικός λῃστικοῦ λῃστικότερος λῃστικοτεροῦ λῃστικότατος λῃστικοτατοῦ
Adverb λῃστικώς λῃστικότερον λῃστικότατα

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

  • τὴν μὲν λῃστικὴν καὶ ἀνδραποδιστικὴν καὶ τυραννικὴν καὶ σύμπασαν τὴν πολεμικήν, ἓν πάντα, βίαιον θήραν, ὁρισάμενοι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 39:4)

Synonyms

  1. in the manner of pirates

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

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