1. ἀλαός · alaos — Beekes
The corpus record
ἀλᾰός
alaos
blind
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Where it lives
- Oedipus at Colonus 3 · 2.9/10k
- Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
- Odyssey 3 · 0.35/10k
What it meant
2. ἀλαός · alaos — Chantraine
3. ἀλαός · alaos — Chantraine
4. ἀλαὸς · alaos — Chantraine
5. ἄλαός · alaos — Frisk
6. ἀλαός · alaos — Frisk
7. ἀλαός · alaos — Frisk
8. ἀλᾰός · alaos — LSJ
not seeing, blind (Cypr. for τυφλός, AB 1095), Od. 8.195, etc. (not in Il., Trag. only in lyr.); τὸ φωτῶν ἀ. γένος A. Pr. 549, ἀλαοί, opp. δεδορκότες, the dead, Id. Eu. 322; of eyes, S. OC 149, 244, E. Ph. 1531; ἕλκος ἀ. blinding wound, i.e. blindness, S. Ant. 974; ἐπ ὀφθαλμῶν ἀ. νέφος A.R. 2.259.
invisible imperceptible φθίσις ἀλαή prob. l. in Hp. Loc.Hom. 10 (codd. ἄλλη, Gal. ἀλαΐα). (If from ἀ- priv., λάω A (q.v.), the accent is exceptional, but cf. Hdn. Gr. 1.112.) [ᾰλᾰος Od. l.c., etc.; but μάντιος ἀλαοῦ init. vers. Od. 10.493, 12.267.]
In the wild
- ἀλαοῖσι · alaoisi Aeschylus, Eumenides 321–322
- ἀλαὸν · alaon Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 547–549
- ἀλαὸν · alaon Euripides, Phoenissae *)/antigo/nh.1530 (DIORISIS sentence 874)
- ἀλαὸς · alaos Theogony 466
- ἀλαοῦ · alaou Odyssey 10.493
- ἀλαοῦ · alaou Odyssey 12.267
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἀλᾰός (scan p. 108; entry #336).
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