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λῃστρικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῃστρικός λῃστρική λῃστρικόν

Structure: λῃστρικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = lh|stiko/s

Sense

  1. piratical

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative λῃστρικός λῃστρική λῃστρικόν
Genitive λῃστρικοῦ λῃστρικῆς λῃστρικοῦ
Dative λῃστρικῷ λῃστρικῇ λῃστρικῷ
Accusative λῃστρικόν λῃστρικήν λῃστρικόν
Vocative λῃστρικέ λῃστρική λῃστρικόν
DualN/A/V λῃστρικώ λῃστρικᾱ́ λῃστρικώ
G/D λῃστρικοῖν λῃστρικαῖν λῃστρικοῖν
PluralNominative λῃστρικοί λῃστρικαί λῃστρικά
Genitive λῃστρικῶν λῃστρικῶν λῃστρικῶν
Dative λῃστρικοῖς λῃστρικαῖς λῃστρικοῖς
Accusative λῃστρικούς λῃστρικᾱ́ς λῃστρικά
Vocative λῃστρικοί λῃστρικαί λῃστρικά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective λῃστρικός λῃστρικοῦ λῃστρικότερος λῃστρικοτεροῦ λῃστρικότατος λῃστρικοτατοῦ
Adverb λῃστρικώς λῃστρικότερον λῃστρικότατα

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

  • τοὺσ δ’ Ἀργείουσ πυθομένουσ καὶ χαλεπαίνοντασ πεῖσαι χρημάτων ὑποσχέσει Τυρρηνοὺσ λῃστρικῷ τῷ βίῳ χρωμένουσ ἁρπάσαι τὸ βρέτασ, πεπεισμένουσ αὐτοὺσ ὡσ, εἰ τοῦτο γένοιτο, πάντωσ τι κακὸν πρὸσ τῶν τὴν Σάμον κατοικούντων ἡ Ἀδμήτη πείσεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 12 3:1)
  • Ὀλίγον δὲ ὕστερον παρὰ τοῦ Σκυθῶν βασιλέωσ ἀφικνοῦνται παῤ Ἀλέξανδρον πρέσβεισ, ὑπὲρ τῶν πραχθέντων ἐσ ἀπολογίαν ἐκπεμφθέντεσ, ὅτι οὐκ ἀπὸ τοῦ κοινοῦ τῶν Σκυθῶν ἐπράχθη, ἀλλὰ καθ̓ ἁρπαγὴν λῃστρικῷ τρόπῳ σταλέντων, καὶ αὐτὸσ ὅτι ἐθέλοι ποιεῖν τὰ ἐπαγγελλόμενα. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 4, chapter 5 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. piratical

Related

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

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