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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)
  • καὶ τί δεῖ τὴν διὰ τῶν ἀλόγων ζῴων ἐπιδεικνύναι τὴν πρὸσ τὰ τέκνα συμπάθειαν̣ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 14:18)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ τῶν ἀλόγων ζῴων δίδωσι καὶ λαμβάνει, πρὸσ ἅπερ αἱ χεῖρεσ ὄργανα δέδονται, πάλιν τῶν ζῴων τὰ μὲν ἄρθρα ἔχει, ὡσ ἄνθρωποσ, ὄνοσ, βοῦσ, τὰ δὲ ἄναρθρά ἐστιν, οἱο͂ν ὄφεισ, ὄστρεα, πλεύμονεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 49 2:1)
  • ἐπεὶ τύχῃ γε καὶ φύσει γενέσεωσ ἀμείνονι τὰ πλεῖστα τῶν ἀλόγων κέχρηται. (Plutarch, De fortuna, chapter, section 3 6:1)
  • ἆρ’ οὖν καὶ οἱ φιλόσοφοι τῶν προβλημάτων ἔνια διὰ τὰσ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ διαφορὰσ ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ἀλόγων φύσιν ζῴων ὥσπερ ἀλλοδαπὴν πόλιν ἐκκαλοῦνται, καὶ τοῖσ ἐκείνων πάθεσι καὶ ἤθεσιν ὡσ ἀνεντεύκτοισ καὶ ἀδεκάστοισ ἐφιᾶσι τὴν κρίσιν; (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 1 1:1)

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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