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 • (lēistrís) 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 lēistrís	τὼ λῃστρῐ́δε tṑ lēistríde	αἱ λῃστρῐ́δες hai lēistrídes
Genitive	τῆς λῃστρῐ́δος tês lēistrídos	τοῖν λῃστρῐ́δοιν toîn lēistrídoin	τῶν λῃστρῐ́δων tôn lēistrídōn
Dative	τῇ λῃστρῐ́δῐ têi lēistrídi	τοῖν λῃστρῐ́δοιν toîn lēistrídoin	ταῖς λῃστρῐ́σῐ / λῃστρῐ́σῐν taîs lēistrísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν λῃστρῐ́δᾰ tḕn lēistrída	τὼ λῃστρῐ́δε tṑ lēistríde	τᾱ̀ς λῃστρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s lēistrídas
Vocative	λῃστρῐ́ς lēistrís	λῃστρῐ́δε lēistríde	λῃστρῐ́δες lēistrídes
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