λῃστρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Feminine form of λῃστής (lēistḗs, “pirate, robber”), from ληΐς (lēḯs, “booty, spoil”) +‎ -τρις (-tris, feminine agent-noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lɛːi̯s.trís/ → /lisˈtris/ → /lisˈtris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lɛːi̯s.trís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /le̝sˈtris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /lisˈtris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /lisˈtris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /lisˈtris/

Noun

λῃστρῐ́ς • (lēistrĭ́s) f (genitive λῃστρῐ́δος); third declension

1. pirate vessel

Declension

Third declension of ἡ λῃστρῐ́ς; τῆς λῃστρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λῃστρῐ́ς hē lēistrĭ́s	τὼ λῃστρῐ́δε tṑ lēistrĭ́de	αἱ λῃστρῐ́δες hai lēistrĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς λῃστρῐ́δος tês lēistrĭ́dos	τοῖν λῃστρῐ́δοιν toîn lēistrĭ́doin	τῶν λῃστρῐ́δων tôn lēistrĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ λῃστρῐ́δῐ têi lēistrĭ́dĭ	τοῖν λῃστρῐ́δοιν toîn lēistrĭ́doin	ταῖς λῃστρῐ́σῐ / λῃστρῐ́σῐν taîs lēistrĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν λῃστρῐ́δᾰ tḕn lēistrĭ́dă	τὼ λῃστρῐ́δε tṑ lēistrĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς λῃστρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s lēistrĭ́dăs
Vocative	λῃστρῐ́ς lēistrĭ́s	λῃστρῐ́δε lēistrĭ́de	λῃστρῐ́δες lēistrĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “λῃστρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λῃστρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette