λάλος

Of imitative origin; compare German lallen (“to babble”). Compare Ancient Greek λαλέω (laléō).

λᾰ́λος • (lálos) m or f (neuter λᾰ́λον); second declension

1. talkative, babbling, loquacious

   Synonyms: πολύλογος (polúlogos), στωμύλος (stōmúlos)

   • 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
   • 230 CE – 238 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

• Note that this adjective’s comparative and superlative degrees are irregularly formed, being λαλίστερος (not *λαλώτερος) and λαλίστατος (not *λαλώτατος), respectively.

• λᾰλῐᾱ́ (laliā́)
• λᾰ́λον (lálon)

• “λάλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press