ἀλήτης
See also: αλήτης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀλάομαι (aláomai, “to wander, rove, roam”) + -της (-tēs)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.lɛ̌ː.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈle̝.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈli.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈli.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈli.tis/
Noun
ἀλήτης • (alḗtēs) m (genitive ἀλήτου); first declension
- wanderer, stroller, rover, vagabond, vagrant
Declension
First declension of ὁ ἀλήτης; τοῦ ἀλήτου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ἀλήτης ho alḗtēs | τὼ ἀλήτᾱ tṑ alḗtā | οἱ ἀλῆται hoi alêtai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἀλήτου toû alḗtou | τοῖν ἀλήταιν toîn alḗtain | τῶν ἀλητῶν tôn alētôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἀλήτῃ tôi alḗtēi | τοῖν ἀλήταιν toîn alḗtain | τοῖς ἀλήταις toîs alḗtais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ἀλήτην tòn alḗtēn | τὼ ἀλήτᾱ tṑ alḗtā | τοὺς ἀλήτᾱς toùs alḗtās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀλῆτᾰ alêta | ἀλήτᾱ alḗtā | ἀλῆται alêtai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: αλήτης (alítis)
Further reading
- “ἀλήτης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀλήτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀλήτης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀλήτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- “ἀλήτης”, 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.
- pilgrim idem, page 613.
- rover idem, page 723.
- vagabond idem, page 942.
- vagrant idem, page 942.
- waif idem, page 959.
- wanderer idem, page 961.
- ἀλήτης - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.