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λῃστικός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: lēistikos

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 λῃστικά λῃστικώ
G/D λῃστικοῖν λῃστικαῖν λῃστικοῖν
PluralNominative λῃστικοί λῃστικαί λῃστικά
Genitive λῃστικῶν λῃστικῶν λῃστικῶν
Dative λῃστικοῖς λῃστικαῖς λῃστικοῖς
Accusative λῃστικούς λῃστικάς 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

  • ὅσα μὲν δὴ στρατιώτης ὢν ἐν σφενδονήτου καὶ ψιλοῦ μέρει τὸ ἀπ ἀρχῆς ἐναντί ἐστράτευται τῇ πόλει, οὐ τίθημ ἐν ἀδικήματος μέρει, οὐδ ὅτι λῃστικόν ποτε πλοῖον ἔχων ἐλῄζετο τοὺς ὑμετέρους συμμάχους, ἀλλ ἐῶ ταῦτα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 207:1)
  • τὴν μὲν λῃστικὴν καὶ ἀνδραποδιστικὴν καὶ τυραννικὴν καὶ σύμπασαν τὴν πολεμικήν, ἓν πάντα, βίαιον θήραν, ὁρισάμενοι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 39:4)
  • οἱ δὲ αὐτοὺς ἐκέλευον ἐκδοῦναί τε αὐτοῖς Λασθένη τὸν πολεμήσαντα Ἀντωνίῳ, καὶ τὰ σκάφη τὰ λῃστικὰ πάντα παραδοῦναι, καὶ ὅσα Ῥωμαίων εἶχον αἰχμάλωτα, καὶ ὅμηρα τριακόσια καὶ ἀργυρίου τάλαντα τετρακισχίλια. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 4:7)
  • καὶ οἱ Κρῆτες ἐς Πομπήιον Μάγνον, στρατηγοῦντα τοῦ λῃστικοῦ καὶ Μιθριδατείου πολέμου, πέμψαντες ἔφασαν ἑαυτοὺς ἐλθόντι ἐπιτρέψειν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5:4)
  • τὸ δὲ Κοστοβώκων τε τῶν λῃστικῶν τὸ κατ ἐμὲ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἐπιδραμὸν ἀφίκετο καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἐλάτειαν: (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 34 8:1)

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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