λαλιά

Ancient Greek

λᾰ́λος (lắlos) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

λᾰλῐᾱ́ • (lălĭā́) f (genitive λᾰλῐᾶς); first declension

talking, talk, chat
- 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 931
- 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1069
- 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Ἀρρηφ. 3, (Compare Hermesianax, Collected Works 78, Palatine Anthology 7.440)
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, Histories 3.20.5
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, Histories 32.9.4
- 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 8:43
1. talkativeness, loquacity
  - 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 34.29
  - 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, The Characters 7
a form of speech, dialect
- 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 26:73, (Compare Septuagint, Song of Songs 4.3)

First declension of ἡ λᾰλῐᾱ́; τῆς λᾰλῐᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λᾰλῐᾱ́ hē lălĭā́	τὼ λᾰλῐᾱ́ tṑ lălĭā́	αἱ λᾰλῐαί hai lălĭaí
Genitive	τῆς λᾰλῐᾶς tês lălĭâs	τοῖν λᾰλῐαῖν toîn lălĭaîn	τῶν λᾰλῐῶν tôn lălĭôn
Dative	τῇ λᾰλῐᾷ tēî lălĭāî	τοῖν λᾰλῐαῖν toîn lălĭaîn	ταῖς λᾰλῐαῖς taîs lălĭaîs
Accusative	τὴν λᾰλῐᾱ́ν tḕn lălĭā́n	τὼ λᾰλῐᾱ́ tṑ lălĭā́	τᾱ̀ς λᾰλῐᾱ́ς tā̀s lălĭā́s
Vocative	λᾰλῐᾱ́ lălĭā́	λᾰλῐᾱ́ lălĭā́	λᾰλῐαί lălĭaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“λαλιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“λαλιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
λαλιά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G2981 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
LSJ 8th edition

λαλιά • (laliá) f (plural λαλιές)

speech, voice
μου κόβερται η λαλιά ― mou kóvertai i laliá ― my voice has failed
language
η ελληνική λαλιά ― i ellinikí laliá ― the Greek language