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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

  • τὸ δὲ λευκὸν φλέγμα διὰ τὸ τῶν πομφολύγων πνεῦμα χαλεπὸν ἀποληφθέν, ἔξω δὲ τοῦ σώματοσ ἀναπνοὰσ ἴσχον ἠπιώτερον μέν, καταποικίλλει δὲ τὸ σῶμα λεύκασ ἀλφούσ τε καὶ τὰ τούτων συγγενῆ νοσήματα ἀποτίκτον. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 444:1)
  • ἀλφοὺσ δὲ καὶ λεύκασ καὶ λειχῆνασ ἰᾶται τὸ ἐντεῦθεν λουτρόν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 3 38:11)

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