The story
- Greek · borrowed fromκλέφτης“thief”
- English todayklepht
From Greek κλέφτης (kléftis, “thief”).
Words from the same roots
Greekκλέφτης all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
klepht
Today it means: An anti-Ottoman insurgent living in the mountains when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire. Full definition →
Greek κλέφτης