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Ancient Greek
Etymology
ἀ- (a-) + λόγος (lógos)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.lo.ɡos/ → /ˈa.lo.ɣos/ → /ˈa.lo.ɣos/
Adjective
ἄλογος • (álogos) m or f (neuter ἄλογον); second declension
- unspeaking, speechless
- unutterable
- without reason, irrational
- not reckoned upon, unexpected
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- ἄλογος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄλογος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “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, 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.