λῃστεία

λῃστεία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

λῃστής (lēistḗs) +‎ -εία (-eía)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lɛːi̯s.těː.aː/ → /lisˈti.a/ → /lisˈti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lɛːi̯s.těː.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /le̝sˈti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /lisˈti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /lisˈti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /lisˈti.a/

Noun

λῃστείᾱ • (lēisteíā) f (genitive λῃστείᾱς); first declension

1. robbery, piracy

Declension

First declension of ἡ λῃστείᾱ; τῆς λῃστείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λῃστείᾱ hē lēisteíā	τὼ λῃστείᾱ tṑ lēisteíā	αἱ λῃστεῖαι hai lēisteîai
Genitive	τῆς λῃστείᾱς tês lēisteíās	τοῖν λῃστείαιν toîn lēisteíain	τῶν λῃστειῶν tôn lēisteiôn
Dative	τῇ λῃστείᾳ têi lēisteíāi	τοῖν λῃστείαιν toîn lēisteíain	ταῖς λῃστείαις taîs lēisteíais
Accusative	τὴν λῃστείᾱν tḕn lēisteíān	τὼ λῃστείᾱ tṑ lēisteíā	τᾱ̀ς λῃστείᾱς tā̀s lēisteíās
Vocative	λῃστείᾱ lēisteíā	λῃστείᾱ lēisteíā	λῃστεῖαι lēisteîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• λῃστεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “λῃστεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brigandage idem, page 98.
  • buccaneering idem, page 102.
  • depredation idem, page 213.
  • marauding idem, page 513.
  • pillage idem, page 613.
  • piracy idem, page 614.
  • plunder idem, page 622.
  • privateering idem, page 642.
  • robbery idem, page 719.
  • spoliation idem, page 804.