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λῃστής (lestes): all forms

λῃστής means “robber, pirate”. Below is its full declension in Ancient Greek.

Forms

Forms, singular
Masculine
Nominativeλῃστής
Genitiveλῃστοῦ
Dativeλῃστῇ
Accusativeλῃστήν
Vocativeλῃστά · λῃστῆ
Forms, plural
Masculine
Nominativeλῃσταί
Genitiveλῃστῶν
Dativeλῃσταῖς
Accusativeλῃστάς
Vocativeλῃσταί

Meaning and examples of λῃστής

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.