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ἀλφός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλφός ἀλφοῦ

Structure: ἀλφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: From same Root comes Lat. albus, and also a)/lfiton, because of the whiteness of meal.

Sense

  1. a type of skin disease, typified by dull white lesions.

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Ἔστιν ἡ δυσχέρεια ἀθεραπευσία σώματοσ λύπησ παρασκευαστική, ὁ δὲ δυσχερὴσ τοιοῦτόσ τισ, οἱο͂σ λέπραν ἔχων καὶ ἀλφὸν καὶ τοὺσ ὄνυχασ μεγάλουσ περιπατεῖν καὶ φῆσαι ταῦτα εἶναι αὑτῷ συγγενικὰ ἀρρωστήματα· (Theophrastus, Characters, 1:1)
  • ὃσ δ’ ἂν ἔχων ἀλφὸν ἢ λεύκην ἐσ αὐτὸ ἐσέλθῃ, πρῶτα μὲν ταῖσ νύμφαισ εὔξασθαι καθέστηκεν αὐτῷ καὶ ὑποσχέσθαι θυσίαν ὁποίαν δή τινα, μετὰ δὲ ἀποσμήχει τὰ νοσοῦντα τοῦ σώματοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 19:2)

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