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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

  • καὶ μηδὲν ἄλλο ταύτησ ἀκριβέστερον ζητεῖν κριτήριον, τοῦτο κἀγὼ τοῖσ ἀναγινώσκουσι τὸν Λυσίαν καὶ τίσ ἡ παρ’ αὐτῷ χάρισ ἐστὶ βουλομένοισ μαθεῖν ὑποθείμην ἂν ἐπιτηδεύειν, χρόνῳ πολλῷ καὶ μακρᾷ τριβῇ καὶ ἀλόγῳ πάθει τὴν ἄλογον συνασκεῖν αἴσθησιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 11 2:1)
  • "ἣν δὲ ταύταισ ἐπεισάγουσιν οἱ ἁρμονικοὶ διὰ πασῶν καὶ διὰ τεσσάρων ὀνομάζοντεσ, ἔξω μέτρου βαίνουσαν, οὐκ ἄξιόν ἐστι δέχεσθαι, τῆσ ἀκοῆσ τῷ ἀλόγῳ παρὰ τὸν λόγον ὥσπερ νόμον χαριζομένουσ. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 109)
  • τῷ μὲν ἀλόγῳ τὸ ταραχῶδεσ, τῷ δὲ λογικῷ τὸ εὔτακτον, ταῖσ δ’ αἰσθήσεσι τὸ κατηναγκασμένον, τῷ δὲ νῷ τὸ αὐτοκρατέσ. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 27 9:1)
  • τῷ μέντοι παθητικῷ καὶ ἀλόγῳ μέχρι παντὸσ ὡσ διαφέροντι τοῦ λογιστικοῦ χρώμενοσ διετέλεσεν, οὐχ ὅτι παντελῶσ ἄλογόν ἐστιν ὥσπερ τὸ αἰσθητικὸν ἢ τὸ θρεπτικὸν καὶ φυτικὸν τῆσ ψυχῆσ μέροσ· (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 3 16:1)
  • ταῦτα τοίνυν καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα διακρουόμενοι τὰσ ἐπιτάσεισ τῶν παθῶν καὶ τὰσ σφοδρότητασ οὔ φασι γίγνεσθαι κατὰ τὴν κρίσιν ἐν ᾗ τὸ ἁμαρτητικόν, ἀλλὰ τὰσ δήξεισ καὶ τὰσ συστολὰσ καὶ τὰσ διαχύσεισ εἶναι τὰσ τὸ μᾶλλον καὶ τὸ ἧττον τῷ ἀλόγῳ δεχομένασ. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 10 7:2)

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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