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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Albanian arbër／arbën + -ίτης (-ítēs).
Pronunciation
Noun
Ἀρβανίτης • (Arbanítēs) m (genitive Ἀρβανίτου); first declension (Byzantine)
- an Albanian
1853 [c. 1079], Michael Attaleiates, Historia, page 297, lines 19–23:ἐπὰν δ' ἔγνω πολύ τι στρατόπεδον συναγηοχὼς καὶ ἀξιόμαχον δύναμιν (εἶχε γὰρ καὶ Ῥωμαίων πολλῶν στρατιωτικόν, Βουλγάρων τε καὶ Ἀρβανιτῶν, καὶ οἰκείους ὑπασπιστὰς οὐκ ὀλίγους), ἄρας ἐκεῖθεν πρὸς τὴν Θεσσαλονίκην ἠπείγετο.- epàn d' égnō polú ti stratópedon sunagēokhṑs kaì axiómakhon dúnamin (eîkhe gàr kaì Rhōmaíōn pollôn stratiōtikón, Boulgárōn te kaì Arbanitôn, kaì oikeíous hupaspistàs ouk olígous), áras ekeîthen pròs tḕn Thessaloníkēn ēpeígeto.
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