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 • (andrapodistḗs) 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 andrapodistḗs	τὼ ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστᾱ́ tṑ andrapodistā́	οἱ ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐσταί hoi andrapodistaí
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστοῦ toû andrapodistoû	τοῖν ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐσταῖν toîn andrapodistaîn	τῶν ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστῶν tôn andrapodistôn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστῇ tôi andrapodistêi	τοῖν ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐσταῖν toîn andrapodistaîn	τοῖς ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐσταῖς toîs andrapodistaîs
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστήν tòn andrapodistḗn	τὼ ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστᾱ́ tṑ andrapodistā́	τοὺς ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστᾱ́ς toùs andrapodistā́s
Vocative	ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστᾰ́ andrapodistá	ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστᾱ́ andrapodistā́	ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐσταί andrapodistaí
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 (2006–2024)
• 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.