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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

  • 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)
  • 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)

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