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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀλάομαι (aláomai, “to wander, rove, roam”) + -της (-tēs)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.lɛ̌ː.tɛːs/ → /aˈli.tis/ → /aˈli.tis/
Noun
ἀλήτης • (alḗtēs) m (genitive ἀλήτου); first declension
- wanderer, stroller, rover, vagabond, vagrant
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀλήτης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀλήτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀλήτης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀλήτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀλήτης”, 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.
- “ἀλήτης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011