Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /laliá/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /laliá/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /laliá/

Noun

λαλιά • ‎(laliá) f ‎(genitive λαλιᾶς); first declension

1. talking, talk, chat
   • Aristophanes, The Clouds 931
   • Aristophanes, The Frogs 1069
   • Polybius, Histories 3.20.5
   • Polybius, Histories 32.9.4
   • The Gospel of John 8.43
   1. talkativeness, loquacity
      • Aeschines, Collected Works 34.29
      • Theophrastus, The Characters 7
2. a form of speech, dialect
   • The Gospel of Matthew 26.73, (Compare Septuagint, Song of Songs 4.3)

Inflection

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• LSJ 8th edition

Greek

Noun

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

Declension

Related terms

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

Synonyms

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