αὐλητής

From αὐλέω (auléō, “to play the flute”) +‎ -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).

αὐλητής • (aulētḗs) m (genitive αὐλητοῦ); first declension

1. (music) a flute-player, flautist.
   • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 941
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.141
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.60
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 581
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Collected Works 2.43

• αὐλητρίς (aulētrís) (feminine)

• English: aulete
• Greek: αυλητής (avlitís)

• “αὐλητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “αὐλητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• αὐλητής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αὐλητής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G834 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.
  • flute-player idem, page 330.
  • piper idem, page 614.