ἀλλότριος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀλλότερρος (allóterrhos) — Aeolic

Etymology

From ἄλλος (állos, “other”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

ἀλλότρῐος • (allótrios) m (feminine ἀλλοτρίᾱ, neuter ἀλλότρῐον); first/second declension

1. of or belonging to another
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.160
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.535
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.298
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 448
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.452
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.347
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 146
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1259
   • 399 BCE, Plato, Euthyphro 4B
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 392
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 599
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Agesilaus 4.1
   • Theopompus Comicus, Collected Works 34
2. foreign, strange, alien
   1. (of persons)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 18.219
      • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 481
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.214
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 16.102
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.155
      • 399 BCE, Plato, Euthyphro 4B
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Ergocles 6
      • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Girl who has her hair cropped 2
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.119
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1162A.3
      • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Plataicus 51
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 28.4.4
      • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 16.65
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 36.15.7
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 36.15.2
   2. (of things)
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 491D
      • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 185
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Funeral Oration 6
      • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Helen 50
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.73
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Philon 34
      • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 182
      1. foreign to the subject, not to the purpose
         • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 1218B.23
         • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1159B.24
         • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Categories 15B.29
3. (adverbial)
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Olympic Oration 1
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 159
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Philip 80
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 9
   1. strangely, marvelously

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἀλλοτριόω (allotrióō)

Descendants

• German: Allotria
• Italian: allotrio

Further reading

• “ἀλλότριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀλλότριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἀλλότριος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀλλότριος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀλλότριος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἀλλότριος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀλλότριος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G245 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • alien idem, page 22.
  • another idem, page 31.
  • estrange idem, page 284.
  • external idem, page 296.
  • extraneous idem, page 297.
  • foreign idem, page 336.
  • other idem, page 581.
  • strange idem, page 823.
  • variance idem, page 944.