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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀνδραποδίζω (andrapodízō, “I enslave, sell slaves”), from ἀνδράποδον (andrápodon, “slave”), + -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /an.dra.po.dis.tɛ̌ːs/ → /an.dra.po.ðisˈtis/ → /an.dra.po.ðisˈtis/
Noun
ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστής • (ăndrăpodĭstḗs) m (genitive ᾰ̓νδρᾰποδῐστοῦ); first declension
- slave dealer, one who enslaves men and sells them as slaves, kidnapper
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἀνδραποδιστής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀνδραποδιστής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀνδραποδιστής 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
- ἀνδραποδιστής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G405 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.