παράσιτος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From παρά (pará, “beside”) + σῖτος (sîtos, “wheat, corn”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pa.rá.siː.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /paˈra.si.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /paˈra.si.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /paˈra.si.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /paˈra.si.tos/
Noun
πᾰράσῑτος • (parásītos) m (genitive πᾰρᾰσῑ́του); second declension
- one who eats at the table of another, parasite
- priest who had his meal at the public expense
- one who dines with a superior officer
Declension
Second declension of ὁ πᾰράσῑτος; τοῦ πᾰρασῑ́του (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πᾰράσῑτος ho parásītos | τὼ πᾰρασῑ́τω tṑ parasī́tō | οἱ πᾰράσῑτοι hoi parásītoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πᾰρασῑ́του toû parasī́tou | τοῖν πᾰρασῑ́τοιν toîn parasī́toin | τῶν πᾰρασῑ́των tôn parasī́tōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πᾰρασῑ́τῳ tôi parasī́tōi | τοῖν πᾰρασῑ́τοιν toîn parasī́toin | τοῖς πᾰρασῑ́τοις toîs parasī́tois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πᾰράσῑτον tòn parásīton | τὼ πᾰρασῑ́τω tṑ parasī́tō | τοὺς πᾰρασῑ́τους toùs parasī́tous | ||||||||||
Vocative | πᾰράσῑτε parásīte | πᾰρασῑ́τω parasī́tō | πᾰράσῑτοι parásītoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- παρασιτέω (parasitéō)
- παρασίτησις (parasítēsis)
- παρασιτία (parasitía)
- παρασιτικός (parasitikós)
- παρασίτιον (parasítion)
Descendants
- → Latin: parasītus
Further reading
- παράσιτος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- παράσιτος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- παράσιτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette