# στρατιώτης
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From an unattested *στρατιάομαι (*stratiáomai) + -της (-tēs). Another analysis (ultimately from the same root) takes the word as a derivative in -ιώτης (-iṓtēs) of στρατός (stratós, “troop, department of the people”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stra.ti.ɔ̌ː.tɛːs/ → /stra.tiˈo.tis/ → /stra.tiˈo.tis/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /stra.ti.ɔ̌ː.tɛːs/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /stra.tiˈo.te̝s/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /stra.tiˈo.tis/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /stra.tiˈo.tis/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /stra.tiˈo.tis/

### Noun

στρᾰτῐώτης • (stratiṓtēs) m (genitive στρᾰτῐώτου); first declension (Attic, Ionic, Koine)
* soldier, warrior
* mercenary

#### Related terms

* στρατιά (stratiá)
* στράτιος (strátios)
* στρατιῶτις (stratiôtis)
* στρατιωτικός (stratiōtikós)
* στρατολογέω (stratologéō)

#### Descendants

* Greek: στρατιώτης (stratiótis)
* → Aramaic:
** Hebrew: אסטרטיוטא (ʾesṭraṭyōṭā)
** Syriac: ܐܣܛܪܛܝܘܛܐ (ʾesṭraṭyōṭā)
* → English: stratiote
* → Hebrew: סַרְדְּיוֹט (sardyót)
* → Parthian:
** Manichaean: ʿstrtywt (istratiyōt)
* Translingual: Stratiotes

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “στρατός (> DER > with -ιώτης)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1411-2

### Further reading

* “στρατιώτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* στρατιώτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* G4757 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. combatant idem, page 144.fighter idem, page 318.private idem, page 642.soldier idem, page 792.warrior idem, page 964.

## Greek
### Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek στρατιώτης (stratiṓtēs, “soldier”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɾaˈtço.tis/
* Hyphenation: στρα‧τιώ‧της
* IPA: /stɾa.tiˈo.tis/ (dated)
* Hyphenation: στρα‧τι‧ώ‧της

### Noun

στρατιώτης • (stratiótis) m (plural στρατιώτες, feminine στρατιωτίνα)
* (military) soldier (member of an army)
* (military) private (army rank), the NATO military rank OR-1
* (chess) pawn
    Synonym: πιόνι (pióni)

#### Declension

| | singular | plural |
| nominative | στρατιώτης • | στρατιώτες • |
| genitive | στρατιώτη • | στρατιωτών • |
| accusative | στρατιώτη • | στρατιώτες • |
| vocative | στρατιώτη • | στρατιώτες • |

#### Coordinate terms

* see: Appendix:Greek military ranks

#### Derived terms

* see: συστρατιώτης m (systratiótis, “comrade”)

#### Related terms

* see: στρατός m (stratós, “army”)

### See also

Chess pieces in Greek · πεσσοί (pessoí) (layout · text) :
| βασιλιάς (vasiliás) | βασίλισσα (vasílissa) | πύργος (pýrgos) | αξιωματικός (axiomatikós), τρελός (trelós) | ίππος (íppos) | στρατιώτης (stratiótis), πιόνι (pióni) |

### Further reading

* στρατιώτης on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{el}$