LOGOI

The corpus record

ἀλλοῖος

alloios

of another sort

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀλλοῖος · alloios — LSJ

of another sort, kind, different, other than good

of another sort or kind, different, Il. 4.258, 5.638 (v.l.), Od. 16.181, etc.; ἄλλοτε ἀλλοῖος Pi. I. 4(3).5, cf. P. 3.104, Diog.Apoll. 2 : prov., ἢν πολλὰ βάλλῃς, ἄλλοτʼ ἀλλοῖον βαλεῖς ‘every bullet has its billet’, Com.Adesp. 448 ; ἀλλοῖα φρονεῖν Emp. 108 ; ἀλλοῖόν τι, euphem. for κακόν τι, other than good, Hdt. 5.40 ; εἴ τι γένοιτο ἀ. Arcesil. ap. D.L. 4.44 ; ἂν . . [ὁ λόγος] ἀλλοιότερος φανῇ D. Prooem. 32.4, cf. Alex.Aphr. Pr. 1.99 :—foll. by ἤ . . , Hdt. 2.35, Pl. Ap. 20c, etc.; or by gen.,

2 containing, subject to diversity

containing or subject to diversity, Porph. Sent. 20, 21.

II otherwise, worse

Adv. -ως otherwise, Pl. Ly. 212d : Comp. -ότερον X. Mem. 4.8.2 ; -οτέρως worse, Charis. 80.17.

In the wild

6 of 75 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

Downloads

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Ask the librarian

Ask about ἀλλοῖος →