λαιά (laia)

λαιά is an Ancient Greek form of λεία, meaning “booty, plunder”. It is the dative singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of λαιός, “left”. It is the dative singular feminine adjective or nominative plural neuter adjective.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracles 159: ὃς οὔποτʼ ἀσπίδʼ ἔσχε πρὸς λαιᾷ χερὶ

Lucian of Samosata, Bacchus 6: … σθαί τι τῶν ἐκεῖθεν, οὐκ ἀπροσδιόνυσον οὐδʼ αὐτό, οὐδʼ ὧν ποιοῦμεν ἀλλότριον. ἐν Ἰνδοῖς τοῖς Μαχλαίοις, οἳ τὰ λαιὰ τοῦ Ἰνδοῦ ποταμοῦ, εἰ κατὰ ῥοῦν αὐτοῦ βλέποις, ἐπινεμόμενοι μέχρι πρὸς τὸν Ὠκεανὸν καθήκουσι, παρὰ τούτοις ἄλ …

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi deorum 24.1: … ἀνάγκῃ τὸν χαλινόν; εἰ γὰρ ἐνδοίη τις, ἀφηνιάζουσιν εὐθύς, ὥσπερ ἀμέλει καὶ τοῦτον ἐξήνεγκαν, ἄρτι μὲν ἐπὶ τὰ λαιά, μετ' ὀλίγον δὲ ἐπὶ τὰ δεξιά, καὶ ἐς τὸ ἐναντίον τοῦ δρόμου ἐνίοτε, καὶ ἄνω καὶ κάτω, ὅλως ἔνθα ἐβούλοντο αὐτ …

All forms of λεία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.