λαλιά

• λᾰλῐή (laliḗ) — poetic

λᾰ́λος (lálos) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā)

λᾰλῐᾱ́ • (laliā́) f (genitive λᾰλῐᾶς); first declension

1. talking, talk, chat
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 931
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1069
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Ἀρρηφ. 3, (Compare Hermesianax, Collected Works 78, Palatine Anthology 7.440)
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, Histories 3.20.5
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, Histories 32.9.4
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 8:43
   1. talkativeness, loquacity
      • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 34.29
      • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, The Characters 7
2. a form of speech, dialect
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 26:73, (Compare Septuagint, Song of Songs 4.3)

• λᾰ́λη (lálē), λᾰ́λον (lálon)

• English: -lalia
• Greek: λαλιά (laliá)

• “λαλιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λαλιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λαλιά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2981 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• LSJ 8th edition

Ancient Greek λαλιά (laliá)

λαλιά • (laliá) f (plural λαλιές)

1. speech, voice

   μου κόβερται η λαλιά ― mou kóvertai i laliá ― my voice has failed

2. language

   η ελληνική λαλιά ― i ellinikí laliá ― the Greek language

• (voice): φωνή f (foní)
• (language): γλώσσα f (glóssa)

• αηδονολαλιά f (aïdonolaliá, “nightingale's song”)

• and see: λαλώ (laló, “to speak, to sing”)