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ἄλουτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλουτος ἄλουτη ἄλουτον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + λουτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lou/omai

Sense

  1. unwashen, not using the bath

Examples

  • σὺ δ’ ὧδ’ ἄλουτοσ καὶ δυσείματοσ χρόα λεχὼ νεογνῶν ἐκ τόκων πεπαυμένη; (Euripides, episode, anapests 7:1)
  • ἐπεὶ οὐδὲ Κλεομένησ, ὃσ αὐτὴν κατέσχε πρῶτοσ, ἀπῆθεν ἀψάλακτοσ, ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ Λακωνικὸν πνέων ᾤχετο θὤπλα παραδοὺσ ἐμοί, σμικρὸν ἔχων πάνυ τριβώνιον, πινῶν ῥυπῶν ἀπαράτιλτοσ, ἓξ ἐτῶν ἄλουτοσ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Parodos, antistrophe 12)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἄλουτοσ τήμερον γενήσομαι; (Aristotle, Episode 2:2)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τοῖσ Σκιάποσιν λίμνη τισ ἔστ’ ἄλουτοσ οὗ ψυχαγωγεῖ Σωκράτησ· (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 11)
  • αὐτὴ δ’ ἄλουτοσ ἀπλύτοισ τ’ ἐν εἵμασιν ἐν κοπρίῃσιν ἡμένη πιαίνεται. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 37)

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

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