Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀλλόγλωσσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλλόγλωσσος ἀλλόγλωσση ἀλλόγλωσσον

Structure: ἀλλογλωσς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: glw=ssa

Sense

  1. using a strange tongue

Declension

First/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

  • ἐπήγαγε γὰρ ἐπ̓ αὐτοὺσ ἔθνοσ μακρόθεν, ἔθνοσ ἀναιδὲσ καὶ ἀλλόγλωσσον, οἳ οὐκ ᾐσχύνθησαν πρεσβύτην οὐδὲ παιδίον ἠλέησαν (Septuagint, Liber Baruch 4:15)
  • οὐδὲ πρὸσ λαοὺσ πολλοὺσ ἀλλοφώνουσ ἢ ἀλλογλώσσουσ οὐδὲ στιβαροὺσ τῇ γλώσσῃ ὄντασ, ὧν οὐκ ἀκούσῃ τοὺσ λόγουσ αὐτῶν. καὶ εἰ πρὸσ τοιούτουσ ἐξαπέστειλά σε, οὗτοι ἂν εἰσήκουσάν σου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 3:6)
  • πρῶτοι γὰρ οὗτοι ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ἀλλόγλωσσοι κατοικίσθησαν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 154 5:2)
  • οὕτωσ δὲ μεμηνότασ αὐτοὺσ ὁρῶν ὁ θεὸσ ἀφανίσαι μὲν ἐκ παντὸσ οὐκ ἔκρινεν, ὅτι μηδ’ ὑπὸ τῶν πρώτων ἀπολωλότων σωφρονισθεῖεν, εἰσ στάσιν δὲ αὐτοὺσ ἐνέβαλεν ἀλλογλώσσουσ ἀπεργασάμενοσ καὶ ὑπὸ πολυφωνίασ ποιήσασ ἑαυτῶν ἀσυνέτουσ εἶναι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 144:3)

Synonyms

  1. using a strange tongue

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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