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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Compound of ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “I speak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al.lɛː.ɡo.rí.aː/ → /al.li.ɣoˈri.a/ → /a.li.ɣoˈri.a/
Noun
ᾰ̓λληγορῐ́ᾱ • (allēgoríā) f (genitive ᾰ̓λληγορῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- (Koine) veiled language, allegory
Declension
Descendants
References
- ἀλληγορία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀλληγορία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀλληγορία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀλληγορία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ἀλληγορία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.