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Ancient Greek
Etymology
λῃστής (lēistḗs) + -εία (-eía)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛːi̯s.těː.aː/ → /lisˈti.a/ → /lisˈti.a/
Noun
λῃστείᾱ • (lēisteíā) f (genitive λῃστείᾱς); first declension
- robbery, piracy
Declension
Descendants
- → Greek: ληστεία (listeía) (learned)
Further reading
- λῃστεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “λῃστεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- brigandage idem, page 98.
- buccaneering idem, page 102.
- depredation idem, page 213.
- marauding idem, page 513.
- pillage idem, page 613.
- piracy idem, page 614.
- plunder idem, page 622.
- privateering idem, page 642.
- robbery idem, page 719.
- spoliation idem, page 804.