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λῃστρίς

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῃστρίς λῃστρίδος

Structure: λῃστριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pecul. fem. of lh|striko/s

Sense

  1. a pirate

Declension

Third 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

  • Ἀμισώδαροσ γάρ, ὥσ φασιν, ὃν Ἰσάραν Λύκιοι καλοῦσιν, ἧκεν ἐκ τῆσ περὶ Ζέλειαν ἀποικίασ Λυκίων, λῃστρίδασ ἄγων ναῦσ, ὧν Χίμαρροσ ἡγεῖτο, πολεμιστὴσ μὲν ἀνὴρ ὠμὸσ δὲ καὶ θηριώδησ. (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 2)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ τούτων Ἀλέξανδροσ μὲν ὁ Φερῶν τύραννοσ λῃστρίδασ ναῦσ ἐκπέμψασ ἐπὶ τὰσ Κυκλάδασ νήσουσ, τινὰσ μὲν ἐκπολιορκήσασ πολλῶν σωμάτων ἐκυρίευσεν, εἰσ δὲ τὴν Πεπάρηθον ἀποβιβάσασ μισθοφόρουσ στρατιώτασ ἐπολιόρκει τὴν πόλιν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xv, chapter 93 17:2)

Synonyms

  1. a pirate

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

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