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ἄλογος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλογος

Structure: ἀλογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without lo/gos
  2. unutterable
  3. without reason, irrational, brutes, animals, a horse
  4. not reckoned upon, unexpected

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

  • ἀντὶ δὲ λογισμῶν ἀσυνέτων ἀδικίασ αὐτῶν, ἐν οἷσ πλανηθέντεσ ἐθρήσκευον ἄλογα ἑρπετὰ καὶ κνώδαλα εὐτελῆ, ἐπαπέστειλασ αὐτοῖσ πλῆθοσ ἀλόγων ζώων εἰσ ἐκδίκησιν, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 11:15)
  • ὅπου γε καὶ τὰ ἄλογα ζῷα ὁμοίαν τὴν εἰσ τὰ ἐξ αὐτῶν γεννώμενα συμπάθειαν καὶ στοργὴν ἔχει τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 14:14)
  • πολλοὶ γὰρ αὐτῶν ὑπ’ ἀμαθίασ ‐ ἀμήχανον γὰρ ἅπαντασ εἶναι σοφοὺσ ‐ καὶ σολοικίασ δεινὰσ ἐν τῇ ὀρχήσει ἐπιδείκνυνται, οἱ μὲν ἄλογα κινούμενοι καὶ μηδέν, ὥσ φασι, πρὸσ τὴν χορδήν, ἕτερα μὲν γὰρ ὁ πούσ, ἕτερα δ’ ὁ ῥυθμὸσ λέγει· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 80:3)
  • ἐοίκε γὰρ ἁνὴρ οὐκ ἄλογα προκαλεῖσθαι δικάζεσθαι ἀξιῶν. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 10:2)
  • ᾄδουσιν, ὥσπερ πρὸ ὡρ́ασ ἀπὸ διδασκάλου γεγονότεσ καταδὺσ δ’ εἰσ τουτὶ τὸ σῶμα θαυμάζω τοὺσ λόγουσ ἐκείνουσ, οἷσ ἀνεπειθόμην ὑπὸ τῶν σοφιστῶν ἄλογα καὶ ἀνόητα πάντα πλὴν ἀνθρώπου νομίζειν. (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 9 15:1)

Synonyms

  1. without lo

  2. unutterable

Related

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

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