ἀλείτης

Ancient Greek

Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyt- (“offense”), which would make it cognate with Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (whence English loath and German Leid)^[1] and possibly with Latin laedo.

ἀλείτης • (aleítēs) m (genitive ἀλείτου); first declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀλείτης ho aleítēs	τὼ ἀλείτᾱ tṑ aleítā	οἱ ἀλεῖται hoi aleîtai
Genitive	τοῦ ἀλείτου toû aleítou	τοῖν ἀλείταιν toîn aleítain	τῶν ἀλειτῶν tôn aleitôn
Dative	τῷ ἀλείτῃ tôi aleítēi	τοῖν ἀλείταιν toîn aleítain	τοῖς ἀλείταις toîs aleítais
Accusative	τὸν ἀλείτην tòn aleítēn	τὼ ἀλείτᾱ tṑ aleítā	τοὺς ἀλείτᾱς toùs aleítās
Vocative	ἀλεῖτᾰ aleîta	ἀλείτᾱ aleítā	ἀλεῖται aleîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀλείτης”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 63

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