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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

  • εἰ γὰρ ἀληθῆ ἐστιν ἃ φὴσ περὶ Φιληματίου, τὴν πηνήκην καὶ ὅτι βάπτεται καὶ τὸ τῶν ἄλλων ἀλφῶν, οὐδὲ προσ2βλέπειν ἂν ἔτι δυναίμην αὐτῇ. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:2)
  • φασὶ δὲ καὶ τὸν Ἀλφειὸν ἀπὸ τῆσ τῶν ἀλφῶν θεραπείασ οὕτωσ ὠνομάσθαι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 3 38:12)

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