Editing Piracy (section)

==Etymology==
The English word "pirate" is derived from the [[Latin]] ''pirata'' ("pirate, corsair, sea robber"), which comes from [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] πειρατής (''peiratēs''), "brigand",<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2380356 Peirates, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, "A Greek-English Lexicon", at Perseus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226081057/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2380356&redirect=true |date=December 26, 2022 }}.</ref> from πειράομαι (peiráomai), "I attempt", from πεῖρα (''peîra''), "attempt, experience".<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2380341 Peira, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, "A Greek-English Lexicon", at Perseus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226081031/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2380341&redirect=true |date=December 26, 2022 }}.</ref> The meaning of the Greek word ''peiratēs'' literally is "anyone who attempts something". Over time it came to be used of anyone who engaged in robbery or brigandry on land or sea.<ref>Janice J. Gabbert, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/643254  'Piracy in the Early Hellenistic Period: A Career Open to Talents,'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811163856/https://www.jstor.org/stable/643254 |date=August 11, 2022 }} [[Greece & Rome]], October 1986, Vol. 33, No. 2 pp. 156–163, p.157.</ref> The term first appeared in English {{circa}} 1300.<ref name="Online Etymology Dictionary">{{cite web |url= http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=pirate&searchmode=none |title= Online Etymology Dictionary |publisher= Etymonline.com |access-date= December 18, 2008 |archive-date= January 16, 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090116231058/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=pirate&searchmode=none |url-status= live }}</ref> Spelling did not become standardised until the eighteenth century, and spellings such as "pirrot", "pyrate" and "pyrat" occurred until this period.<ref>
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