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
- 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.
- καὶ ὄψεται ὁ ἱερεύσ, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐν δέρματι τῆσ σαρκὸσ αὐτοῦ αὐγάσματα αὐγάζοντα λευκανθίζοντα, ἀλφόσ ἐστιν ἐξανθεῖ ἐν τῷ δέρματι τῆσ σαρκὸσ αὐτοῦ, καθαρόσ ἐστι. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 13:39)
- 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)
- Ἕλκοσ, ἐσχάρη, αἷμα, πύον, ἰχώρ, λέπρη, πίτυρον, ἄχωρ, λειχήν, ἀλφόσ, ἔφηλισ, ὁτὲ μὲν βλάπτει, ὁτὲ δὲ ὠφελεῖ, ὁτὲ δὲ οὔτε βλάπτει οὔτε ὠφελεῖ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xx.1)
- 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)
- 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)
