λάλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Of imitative origin; compare German lallen (“to babble”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lá.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈla.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈla.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈla.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈla.los/
Adjective
λᾰ́λος • (lálos) m, f (neuter λᾰ́λον); second declension
- talkative, babbling, loquacious
- 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 462
- 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 653
- 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 515e
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 5.75
- Orph., A. 709
- Palatine Anthology 7.417.10
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1277b.23
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 536a.24
- Palatine Anthology 7.195
- AJA 17.162
- 86 CE – 160 CE, Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 1.25.8
- Anacreont. 11.7
- 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 2.30
- 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 91
- 375 BCE – 275 BCE, Alexis 92
- 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander 416
- 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 315
- 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander 164
Usage notes
- Note that this adjective’s comparative and superlative degrees are irregularly formed, being λαλίστερος (not *λαλώτερος) and λαλίστατος (not *λαλώτατος), respectively.
Declension
Second declension of λᾰ́λος; λᾰ́λον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | λᾰ́λος lálos | λᾰ́λον lálon | λᾰ́λω lálō | λᾰ́λω lálō | λᾰ́λοι láloi | λᾰ́λᾰ lála | ||||||||
Genitive | λᾰ́λου lálou | λᾰ́λου lálou | λᾰ́λοιν láloin | λᾰ́λοιν láloin | λᾰ́λων lálōn | λᾰ́λων lálōn | ||||||||
Dative | λᾰ́λῳ lálōi | λᾰ́λῳ lálōi | λᾰ́λοιν láloin | λᾰ́λοιν láloin | λᾰ́λοις lálois | λᾰ́λοις lálois | ||||||||
Accusative | λᾰ́λον lálon | λᾰ́λον lálon | λᾰ́λω lálō | λᾰ́λω lálō | λᾰ́λους lálous | λᾰ́λᾰ lála | ||||||||
Vocative | λᾰ́λε lále | λᾰ́λον lálon | λᾰ́λω lálō | λᾰ́λω lálō | λᾰ́λοι láloi | λᾰ́λᾰ lála | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
λᾰ́λως lálōs | λᾰλίστερος lalísteros | λᾰλίστᾰτος lalístatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λᾰλῐᾱ́ (laliā́)
- λᾰ́λον (lálon)
References
- λάλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press