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

  • ἄλλα δὲ μυρία λυγρὰ κατ’ ἀνθρώπουσ ἀλάληται· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 13:10)
  • ἄλλα δὲ μυρία λυγρὰ κατ’ ἀνθρώπουσ ἀλάληται. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 7 8:2)
  • "οὐ μὰ Ζῆν’, Ἀγέλαε, καὶ ἄλγεα πατρὸσ ἐμοῖο, ὅσ που τῆλ’ Ἰθάκησ ἢ ἔφθιται ἢ ἀλάληται, οὔ τι διατρίβω μητρὸσ γάμον, ἀλλὰ κελεύω γήμασθ’ ᾧ κ’ ἐθέλῃ, ποτὶ δ’ ἄσπετα δῶρα δίδωμι. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 20 55:2)

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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