παράσιτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From παρά (pará, “beside”) +‎ σῖτος (sîtos, “wheat, corn”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.rá.siː.tos/ → /paˈra.si.tos/ → /paˈra.si.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.rá.siː.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /paˈra.si.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /paˈra.si.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paˈra.si.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paˈra.si.tos/

Noun

πᾰράσῑτος • (parásītos) m (genitive πᾰρᾰσῑ́του); second declension

1. one who eats at the table of another, parasite
2. priest who had his meal at the public expense
3. one who dines with a superior officer

Declension

Second declension of ὁ πᾰράσῑτος; τοῦ πᾰρασῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• παρασιτέω (parasitéō)
• παρασίτησις (parasítēsis)
• παρασιτία (parasitía)
• παρασιτικός (parasitikós)
• παρασίτιον (parasítion)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: parasītus
  • → English: parasite

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