ἀλύω
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ἄλυς (álus, “agitation”). May be related to Latin alucinor (“to wander in mind, talk idly, prate, dream”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.lý.ɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈly.o/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈly.o/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈly.o/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈli.o/
Verb
ἀλύω • (alúō)
Inflection
Present: ᾰ̓λῠ́ω
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | ᾰ̓λῠ́ω | ᾰ̓λῠ́εις | ᾰ̓λῠ́ει | ᾰ̓λῠ́ετον | ᾰ̓λῠ́ετον | ᾰ̓λῠ́ομεν | ᾰ̓λῠ́ετε | ᾰ̓λῠ́ουσῐ(ν) | ||||
| subjunctive | ᾰ̓λῠ́ω | ᾰ̓λῠ́ῃς | ᾰ̓λῠ́ῃ | ᾰ̓λῠ́ητον | ᾰ̓λῠ́ητον | ᾰ̓λῠ́ωμεν | ᾰ̓λῠ́ητε | ᾰ̓λῠ́ωσῐ(ν) | |||||
| optative | ᾰ̓λῠ́οιμῐ | ᾰ̓λῠ́οις | ᾰ̓λῠ́οι | ᾰ̓λῠ́οιτον | ᾰ̓λῠοίτην | ᾰ̓λῠ́οιμεν | ᾰ̓λῠ́οιτε | ᾰ̓λῠ́οιεν | |||||
| imperative | ᾰ̓́λῠε | ᾰ̓λῠέτω | ᾰ̓λῠ́ετον | ᾰ̓λῠέτων | ᾰ̓λῠ́ετε | ᾰ̓λῠόντων | |||||||
| active | |||||||||||||
| infinitive | ᾰ̓λῠ́ειν | ||||||||||||
| participle | m | ᾰ̓λῠ́ων | |||||||||||
| f | ᾰ̓λῠ́ουσᾰ | ||||||||||||
| n | ᾰ̓λῠ́ον | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Further reading
- “ἀλύω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀλύω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀλύω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀλύω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἀλύω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἀλύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.