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ἄλαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλαλος ἄλαλη ἄλαλον

Structure: ἀλαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. speechless

Examples

  • "κατέβη μὲν εἰσ τὸ μαντεῖον ὥσ φασιν ἄκουσα καὶ ἀπρόθυμοσ, εὐθὺσ δὲ περὶ τὰσ πρώτασ ἀποκρίσεισ ἦν καταφανὴσ τῇ τραχύτητι τῆσ φωνῆσ οὐκ ἀναφέρουσα δίκην νεὼσ ἐπειγομένησ, ἀλάλου καὶ κακοῦ πνεύματοσ οὖσα πλήρησ· (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 515)
  • καὶ ὑπερπερισσῶσ ἐξεπλήσσοντο λέγοντεσ Καλῶσ πάντα πεποίηκεν, καὶ τοὺσ κωφοὺσ ποιεῖ ἀκούειν καὶ ἀλάλουσ λαλεῖν. (, chapter 4 190:1)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ ὡσεὶ κωφὸσ οὐκ ἤκουον καὶ ὡσεὶ ἄλαλοσ οὐκ ἀνοίγων τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 37:14)

Synonyms

  1. speechless

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

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