ἀλείτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyt- (“offense”), which would make it cognate with Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (whence English loath and German Leid) and possibly with Latin laedo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.lěː.tɛːs/ → /aˈli.tis/ → /aˈli.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.lěː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈli.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈli.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈli.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈli.tis/

Noun

ἀλείτης • (aleítēs) m (genitive ἀλείτου); first declension

1. sinner
2. offender, criminal

Declension

First declension of ὁ ἀλείτης; τοῦ ἀλείτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀλείτης ho aleítēs	τὼ ἀλείτᾱ tṑ aleítā	οἱ ἀλεῖται hoi aleîtai
Genitive	τοῦ ἀλείτου toû aleítou	τοῖν ἀλείταιν toîn aleítain	τῶν ἀλειτῶν tôn aleitôn
Dative	τῷ ἀλείτῃ tôi aleítēi	τοῖν ἀλείταιν toîn aleítain	τοῖς ἀλείταις toîs aleítais
Accusative	τὸν ἀλείτην tòn aleítēn	τὼ ἀλείτᾱ tṑ aleítā	τοὺς ἀλείτᾱς toùs aleítās
Vocative	ἀλεῖτᾰ aleîtă	ἀλείτᾱ aleítā	ἀλεῖται aleîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀλειτεία (aleiteía, “fault”)
• ἀλιταίνω (alitaínō, “to offend against, transgress”)
• ἀλιτρός (alitrós, “sinful, wicked”)
• ἀλοίτης (aloítēs, “avenger”)
• Ἀλοῑτις (Aloītis, “epithet of Athena”)
• ἀλοίτος (aloítos, “criminal”)

Further reading

• “ἀλείτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀλείτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἀλείτης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀλείτης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἀλείτης”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• ἀλείτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἀλείτης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011