Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • πάντ’ ἐστὶ ταῦτα, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, ὡσ δυνατὸν ἀλογώτατα. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 267:3)
  • εἰ γὰρ ἡμεῖσ μὲν οἷσ οὗτοί φασι τοσαῦτα πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ ὑπάρχειν ὑπεναντία, πάντα ταῦτ’ ἀνελόντεσ ἥκομεν συσσώζειν ὑμῖν ἀξιοῦντεσ τὴν πόλιν, ὑμεῖσ δ’ οἱ μηδὲν ἔχοντεσ ὑμῖν αὐτοῖσ μέμψασθαι πάντ’ ἀκονιτὶ προήσεσθε, πῶσ οὐ πάντων ἀλογώτατα πράξετε; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:4)

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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