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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

  • ᾗ ἡγιάσθη Κυρίῳ, τὰσ ἡμέρασ τῆσ εὐχῆσ, καὶ προσάξει ἀμνὸν ἐνιαύσιον εἰσ πλημμέλειαν, καὶ αἱ ἡμέραι αἱ πρότεραι ἄλογοι ἔσονται, ὅτι ἐμιάνθη ἡ κεφαλὴ εὐχῆσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 6:12)
  • ἄλογοι γὰρ ἴσχουσιν ἀθυμίαι καὶ φόβοι πολλάκισ ἀπ’ οὐδενὸσ φανεροῦ, τὰσ ἐλπίδασ ἄφνω κατασβεννύουσαι· (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 14 4:2)
  • εἰ δή τινέσ εἰσιν εὐφυεῖσ ὥσπερ οἱ ἄδικοι οὐκ ἐπιστάμενοι ᾄδειν, οὕτωσ εὖ πεφύκασι καὶ ἄνευ λόγου ὁρμῶσιν, ἡ φύσισ πέφυκε, καὶ ἐπιθυμοῦσι καὶ τούτου καὶ τότε καὶ οὕτωσ ὡσ δεῖ καὶ οὗ δεῖ καὶ ὅτε, οὗτοι κατορθώσουσι, κἂν τύχωσιν ἄφρονεσ ὄντεσ καὶ ἄλογοι, ὥσπερ καὶ εὖ ἔσονται οὐ διδασκαλικοὶ ὄντεσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 8 31:2)
  • καὶ διὰ τοῦτο, ὃ οἱ πάλαι ἔλεγον, εὐτυχεῖσ καλοῦνται οἳ ἂν ὁρμήσωσι, κατορθοῦσιν ἄλογοι ὄντεσ, καὶ βουλεύεσθαι οὐ συμφέρει αὐτοῖσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 8 42:4)
  • ἄλογοι γὰρ ὄντεσ ἐπιτυγχάνουσι· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 8 43:2)

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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