λεία

From Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“to seize, gain”).^[1] Cognates include Sanskrit लोत (lota), Latin lucrum and Proto-Germanic *launą.

• λάιᾱ (láiā) — Doric
• ληΐη (lēḯē) — Ionic

λείᾱ • (leíā) f (genitive λείᾱς); first declension

1. booty, plunder
2. the act of plunder
3. stolen property
4. herd, flock

• Greek: λεία (leía)
• ⇒ Translingual: Leatettix

From λεῖος (leîos, “smooth”).

λείᾱ • (leíā) f (genitive λείᾱς); first declension

1. tool for smoothing stone

λεία • (leía)

1. inflection of λεῖος (leîos):
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative dual

• Greek: λεία (leía)

• “λεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • booty idem, page 89.
  • pillage idem, page 613.
  • plunder idem, page 622.
  • prey idem, page 639.
  • spoil idem, page 803.
• λεία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

From Ancient Greek λεία (leía).

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.a/
• Hyphenation: λεί‧α

λεία • (leía) f (plural λείες)

1. prey
2. booty

• see: ληστής m (listís, “robber”)

λεία • (leía)

1. nominative/accusative/vocative feminine singular of λείος (leíos)
2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of λείος (leíos)