ἀλέκτωρ

From ᾰ̓λέξω (aléxō, “I ward off”) +‎ -τωρ (-tōr, “-er”).

ᾰ̓λέκτωρ • (aléktōr) m (genitive ᾰ̓λέκτορος); third declension

1. cock, rooster
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1671:

     Κόμπασον θαρσῶν, ἀλέκτωρ ὥστε θηλείας πέλας.

     Kómpason tharsôn, aléktōr hṓste thēleías pélas.

     Brag in your bravery like a cock beside his hen.

2. husband, consort
   • Tz., ad Lyc. 1094

• ᾰ̓λέκτορον (aléktoron)
• ᾰ̓λεκτρῠών (alektruṓn)

• Coptic: ⲁⲗⲉⲕⲧⲱⲣ (alektōr)

• “ἀλέκτωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G220 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

From ᾰ̓- (a-, “not”) +‎ λέχομαι (lékhomai, “I lay”) +‎ -τωρ (-tōr, “-er”). The meaning is supplied by λέκτρον (léktron, “marriage-bed”).

ᾰ̓λέκτωρ • (aléktōr) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓́λεκτορ); third declension

1. (hapax) unwedded
   • 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.53:

     ἔφη ’γενέθλιός ἐστι τῆς ἀλέκτορος Ἀθηνᾶς καὶ ἄδικος ἡ τῆτες ἡμέρα.'

     éphē ’genéthliós esti tês aléktoros Athēnâs kaì ádikos hē têtes hēméra.'

     He said, "This is the birthday of the unwedded goddess Minerva, and this day is unjust."

• ᾰ̓́λεκτρος (álektros)

• “ἀλέκτωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀλέκτωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀλέκτωρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀλέκτωρ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀλέκτωρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G220 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.
  • cock idem, page 141.