Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• λᾳστής ‎(lāistḗs) Doric
• ληϊστής ‎(lēïstḗs) Ionic

Noun

λῃστής • ‎(lēistḗs) m ‎(genitive λῃστοῦ); first declension

1. robber, bandit
2. pirate, buccaneer
3. revolutionary, insurrectionist, guerrilla

Inflection

Synonyms

• (robber): κλέπτης ‎(kléptēs)
• (pirate): πειρατής ‎(peiratḗs)

References

• λῃστής in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λῃστής in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «λῃστής» 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
• “G3027”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «λῃστής» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bandit idem, page 61.
  • brigand idem, page 98.
  • buccaneer idem, page 102.
  • corsair idem, page 175.
  • depredator idem, page 213.
  • desperado idem, page 216.
  • filibuster idem, page 319.
  • freebooter idem, page 343.
  • marauder idem, page 513.
  • pirate idem, page 614.
  • plunderer idem, page 622.
  • privateer idem, page 642.
  • ravaged idem, page 674.
  • ravisher idem, page 674.
  • robber idem, page 719.
  • spoiler idem, page 803.