λάσταυρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin together with λάσται (lástai, “whores”) and λασιτός (lasitós, “cinaedus”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lás.tau̯.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlas.taw.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈlas.ta.βros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈlas.ta.vros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈlas.ta.vros/
Noun
λᾰ́σταυρος • (lástauros) m (genitive λᾰσταύρου); second declension
- catamite, cinaedus, debauchee
- Synonyms: βάταλος (bátalos), κίναιδος (kínaidos)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ λᾰ́σταυρος; τοῦ λᾰσταύρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ λᾰ́σταυρος ho lástauros | τὼ λᾰσταύρω tṑ lastaúrō | οἱ λᾰ́σταυροι hoi lástauroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λᾰσταύρου toû lastaúrou | τοῖν λᾰσταύροιν toîn lastaúroin | τῶν λᾰσταύρων tôn lastaúrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λᾰσταύρῳ tôi lastaúrōi | λᾰσταύροιν lastaúroin | τοῖς λᾰσταύροις toîs lastaúrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν λᾰ́σταυρον tòn lástauron | λᾰσταύρω lastaúrō | τοὺς λᾰσταύρους toùs lastaúrous | ||||||||||
Vocative | λᾰ́σταυρε lástaure | λᾰσταύρω lastaúrō | λᾰ́σταυροι lástauroi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἡμιλάσταυρος (hēmilástauros)
- λασταυροκάκκαβον (lastaurokákkabon)
Descendants
- → Latin: lastaurus
Further reading
- λάσταυρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λάσταυρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN