ἀνδραποδιστής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀνδραποδίζω (andrapodízō, “I enslave, sell slaves”), from ἀνδράποδον (andrápodon, “slave”), +‎ -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /an.dra.po.dis.tɛ̌ːs/ → /an.dra.po.ðisˈtis/ → /an.dra.po.ðisˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /an.dra.po.dis.tɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /an.dra.po.disˈte̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /an.dra.po.ðisˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /an.dra.po.ðisˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /an.dra.po.ðisˈtis/

Noun

ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστής • (ăndrăpodĭstḗs) m (genitive ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστοῦ); first declension

1. slave dealer, one who enslaves men and sells them as slaves, kidnapper

Inflection

First declension of ὁ ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστής; τοῦ ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστής ho ăndrăpodĭstḗs	τὼ ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστᾱ́ tṑ ăndrăpodĭstā́	οἱ ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐσταί hoi ăndrăpodĭstaí
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστοῦ toû ăndrăpodĭstoû	τοῖν ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐσταῖν toîn ăndrăpodĭstaîn	τῶν ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστῶν tôn ăndrăpodĭstôn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστῇ tôi ăndrăpodĭstêi	τοῖν ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐσταῖν toîn ăndrăpodĭstaîn	τοῖς ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐσταῖς toîs ăndrăpodĭstaîs
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστήν tòn ăndrăpodĭstḗn	τὼ ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστᾱ́ tṑ ăndrăpodĭstā́	τοὺς ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστᾱ́ς toùs ăndrăpodĭstā́s
Vocative	ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστᾰ́ ăndrăpodĭstắ	ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστᾱ́ ăndrăpodĭstā́	ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐσταί ăndrăpodĭstaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἀνδραποδιστής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀνδραποδιστής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀνδραποδιστής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἀνδραποδιστής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G405 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • kidnapper idem, page 468.
  • slave-dealer idem, page 782.