ἄλογος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.lo.ɡos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.lo.ɡos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.lo.ɣos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.lo.ɣos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.lo.ɣos/
Adjective
ἄλογος • (álogos) m or f (neuter ἄλογον); second declension
- unspeaking, speechless
- unutterable
- without reason, irrational
- not reckoned upon, unexpected
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | ἄλογος álogos |
ἄλογον álogon |
ἀλόγω alógō |
ἀλόγω alógō |
ἄλογοι álogoi |
ἄλογᾰ álogă | ||||||||
| Genitive | ἀλόγου alógou |
ἀλόγου alógou |
ἀλόγοιν alógoin |
ἀλόγοιν alógoin |
ἀλόγων alógōn |
ἀλόγων alógōn | ||||||||
| Dative | ἀλόγῳ alógōi |
ἀλόγῳ alógōi |
ἀλόγοιν alógoin |
ἀλόγοιν alógoin |
ἀλόγοις alógois |
ἀλόγοις alógois | ||||||||
| Accusative | ἄλογον álogon |
ἄλογον álogon |
ἀλόγω alógō |
ἀλόγω alógō |
ἀλόγους alógous |
ἄλογᾰ álogă | ||||||||
| Vocative | ἄλογε áloge |
ἄλογον álogon |
ἀλόγω alógō |
ἀλόγω alógō |
ἄλογοι álogoi |
ἄλογᾰ álogă | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ἀλόγως alógōs |
ἀλογώτερος alogṓteros |
ἀλογώτᾰτος alogṓtătos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἄλογον (álogon)
Further reading
- ἄλογος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄλογος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “ἄλογος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G249 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- absurd idem, page 4.
- baseless idem, page 64.
- blind idem, page 83.
- brute idem, page 102.
- frivolous idem, page 346.
- illogical idem, page 416.
- indiscriminate idem, page 434.
- instinctive idem, page 446.
- intuitive idem, page 456.
- irrational idem, page 459.
- misguided idem, page 534.
- misplaced idem, page 534.
- preposterous idem, page 636.
- unfair idem, page 917.
- unnamed idem, page 926.
- unreasonable idem, page 929.
- unreasoning idem, page 929.
- unthinking idem, page 934.
- unwarrantable idem, page 936.