1. ἄλλομαι · allomai — Beekes
The corpus record
ἅλλομαι
allomai
to jump, leap
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Where it lives
- Eumenides 2 · 3.82/10k
- Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k
- Iliad 25 · 2.24/10k
- De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
- Job 2 · 1.5/10k
- On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
- Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
- Charmides 1 · 1.2/10k
- Hippias Major 1 · 1.18/10k
- Acts 2 · 1.11/10k
- Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
- Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ἄλλομαι · allomai — Chantraine
3. ἅλλομαι · hallomai — Frisk
4. ἅλλομαι · hallomai — Frisk
5. ἅλλομαι · hallomai — LSJ
spring, leap, prop. of living beings, μὴ . . ἐς τεῖχος ἅληται Il. 21.536; ἐπεί κʼ . . εἰς ἵππους ἅλεται 11.192; εἰς ἅλα ἆλτο 1.532 (but ἥλατο πόντον Call. Dian. 195); ἐξ ὀχέων . . ἆλτο χαμᾶζε Il. 6.103; ἆλτο κατʼ Οὐλύμπου 18.616:—ἅλλεσθαι ἐπί τινι leap upon or against, 21.174, Od. 22.80; ἐπὶ στίχας Il. 20.353: c. inf., ἆλτο θέειν, πέτεσθαι, h.Cer. 389, Ap. 448: abs., of horse, X. Eq. 8.4.
c. acc., leap over, βόθρον Ael. NA 6.6; τάφρον Opp. C. 1.83.
of things, ἆλτο ὀϊστός Il. 4.125; of sound, ἀπὸ λείων ἠχὼ ἁλλομένη Pl. Phdr. 255c; of parts of body, twitch, quiver, throb, ἅλλεται ὀφθαλμός Theoc. 3.37, cf. Arist. HA 604a27, PRyl. 1.28.
In the wild
- ἁλομένα · halomena Aeschylus, Eumenides 372–376
- ἁλομένα · halomena Aeschylus, Eumenides (DIORISIS sentence 191)
- ἅλλοιτο · halloito Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 120)
- ἡλάμεσθα · hēlamestha Aristophanes, Frogs 241–250
- ἅλλομαι · hallomai Aristophanes, Lysistrata 83 (DIORISIS sentence 69)
- ἁλόμενον · halomenon Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 145)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἅλλομαι (scan p. 119; entry #385). Root candidates: *sel-, *sal-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἅλλομαι (scan p. 77; entry #399).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἅλλομαι (scan p. 106; entry #373). Root candidates: *solpo-.
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