Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀλάλητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλάλητος ἀλάλητη ἀλάλητον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + λαλητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lale/w

Sense

  1. unutterable

Examples

  • Πολλοῖσ ἀνθρώπων γλώσσῃ θύραι οὐκ ἐπίκεινται ἁρμόδιαι, καί σφιν πόλλ’ ἀλάλητα μέλει· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389227)

Synonyms

  1. unutterable

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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