λύται

As a term of Byzantine law, translation for the Latin term lytae ^[1] at Justinian's Constitution omnem, 533, itself a transliteration of the plural of Hellenistic Koine singular λύτης m (lútēs, “who solves puzzles”),^[2] from λύ(ω) (lú(ō), “loosen”) +‎ -της (-tēs, a suffix added to verb stems to form masculine agent nouns).

λύται • (lútai) m pl (indeclinable) (Koine, Byzatine)

1. (in the plural, Byzantine law) law-students who were in their fourth year of study

• προλύται (prolútai, “law students of the fifth year of study”)

• “λύται”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λύται”, also see the Latin “lytae”, “prolytae”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011