ἀλήτης

See also: αλήτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀλάομαι (aláomai, “to wander, rove, roam”) +‎ -της (-tēs)

Pronunciation

 

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

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.lɛ̌ː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈle̝.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

ἀλήτης • (alḗtēs) m (genitive ἀλήτου); first declension

1. wanderer, stroller, rover, vagabond, vagrant

Declension

First declension of ὁ ἀλήτης; τοῦ ἀλήτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀλήτης ho alḗtēs	τὼ ἀλήτᾱ tṑ alḗtā	οἱ ἀλῆται hoi alêtai
Genitive	τοῦ ἀλήτου toû alḗtou	τοῖν ἀλήταιν toîn alḗtain	τῶν ἀλητῶν tôn alētôn
Dative	τῷ ἀλήτῃ tôi alḗtēi	τοῖν ἀλήταιν toîn alḗtain	τοῖς ἀλήταις toîs alḗtais
Accusative	τὸν ἀλήτην tòn alḗtēn	τὼ ἀλήτᾱ tṑ alḗtā	τοὺς ἀλήτᾱς toùs alḗtās
Vocative	ἀλῆτᾰ alêtă	ἀλήτᾱ alḗtā	ἀλῆται alêtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αλήτης (alítis)

Further reading

• “ἀλήτης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀλήτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀλήτης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἀλήτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἀλήτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • pilgrim idem, page 613.
  • rover idem, page 723.
  • vagabond idem, page 942.
  • vagrant idem, page 942.
  • waif idem, page 959.
  • wanderer idem, page 961.
• “ἀλήτης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011