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ἀλαζ-ών

alazon

charlatan, quack, braggart, boaster

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Where it lives

2 Timothy 1 · 8.34/10k
Hippias Minor 2 · 4.59/10k
Acharnians 3 · 4.22/10k
Peace 3 · 3.77/10k
Clouds 3 · 3.12/10k
On the Sacred Disease 1 · 2.18/10k
Birds 2 · 1.88/10k
Lysis 1 · 1.44/10k
Romans 1 · 1.43/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 8 · 1.42/10k
Charmides 1 · 1.2/10k
Eudemian Ethics 3 · 1.15/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ἀλαζών · alazōn — Beekes

ἀλαζών, -dvoc [m., (1 ‘charlatan, quack, braggart, boaster’ (Arist.). «ἢ» *VAR Also as a adjective. *DER ἀλαζονικός ‘boastful’ (Hp. X., Arist.), ἀλαζονίας = ἀλαζών (Hdn.), ἀλαζοσύνη ‘bragging’ (Aq.). ἜΤΥΜ ἀλαζών is identical with the Thracian EN Ἀλαζών. Perhaps it simply became an appellative, just like vandal (though with a different meaning). See Burkert RAM 105 (1962): sof. Of course, this interpretation remains … — [Beekes, s.v. ἀλαζών, p. 107]

2. ἀλαζών · alazōn — Chantraine

ἀλαζών, -ὄόνος : m. et f. «charlatan, vantards (com. et pros. ion.-att.), opposé par Arist. Eth. Nic. 1108 a à εἴρων, La glose ἀλαζών * à ἀλώμενος οὕτως ᾿Αλκαῖος (Fr. 31 Kock} ne doit être qu’un jeu de mot du comique. Dérivés : ἀλαζονικός (Hp., X., Arist., etc.) ; ἀλαζονίας, του vantard {Hdn.), pour le suffixe, cf. Chantraine, Formation 92 sqq.; ἀλαζοσύνη (Aq.). Verbe dénominatif ἀλαζονεύομαι faire le vantard (Com., … — [Chantraine, s.v. ἀλαζών, p. 67]

3. ἀλαζών · alazōn — Frisk

ἀλαζών, -dvos m.f. “Marktschreier, Prahler’ (ion. att.), auch adjektivisch gebraucht. Ableitungen: ἀλαξονικός "prahlerisch, stutzerhaft’ (Hp., X., Arist. usw.), ἀλαξονίας = ἀλαζών (Hdn.), ἀλαξοσύνη "Großtuerei’ (Aq.). — Verbum: ἀλαξονεύομαι “großtun, prahlen’ (Kom., Redner usw.). Davon ἀλαζονεία, ἀλαζόγευμα. ἀλαζών ist mit dem thrakischen Volksnamen λαξών identisch, der zum Appellativ geworden ist. Bonfante BSL … — [Frisk, s.v. ἀλαζών, p. 92]

4. ἀλαζών · alazōn — Frisk

ἀλαζών. Über Bed. und Gebrauch (urspr. “wandelnder Bettelpriester und Seher’?) Burkert RhM 105 (1962) 50f. m. A. 54. — [Frisk, s.v. ἀλαζών, p. 2151]

5. ἀλαζ-ών · alaz-ōn — LSJ

wanderer about country, vagrant

wanderer about country, vagrant, Alc.Com. 31.

II charlatan, quack

charlatan, quack, esp. of Sophists, Cratin. 380, Ar. Nu. 102, Pl. Chrm. 173c, al.

2 braggart, boaster

braggart, boaster, X. Cyr. 2.2.12, Arist. EN 1127a21; title of play by Men.

3 boastful, pretentious, most shameless

Adj., boastful, pretentious, Hdt. 6.12; ἀ. λόγοι Pl. R. 560c: Comp. -έστερος Suid. s.v. εἴρων: Sup., ἡδονὴ ἀλαζονίστατον most shameless, Pl. Phlb. 65c. Adv. Sup. -έστατα, δρῶν Ael. NA 4.29.

In the wild

ἀλαζὼν · alazōn Aristophanes, Acharnians 135 (DIORISIS sentence 113)
ἀλαζὼν · alazōn Aristophanes, Acharnians 370 (DIORISIS sentence 281)
ἀλαζὼν · alazōn Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 88)
ἀλαζὼν · alazōn Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 719)
ἀλαζόνας · alazonas Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 751)
ἀλαζόνες · alazones Aristophanes, Clouds 1490 (DIORISIS sentence 1145)

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