The corpus record

διάλογ-ος

dialogos · ὁ

conversation, dialogue

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 41 · 3.83/10k
Protagoras 4 · 2.25/10k
Laches 1 · 1.3/10k
Sophist 2 · 1.25/10k
Alcibiades 1 1 · 0.98/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Analytica priora et posteriora 1 · 0.18/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

διάλογ-ος · dialog-os — LSJ

conversation, dialogue, debating arguments, talk, chat

conversation, dialogue, Pl. Prt. 335d, Demetr. Eloc. 223; δ. τῆς ψυχῆς πρὸς αὑτήν Pl. Sph. 263e; οἱ Σωκρατικοὶ δ. Arist. Fr. 72; τὰ ἐν τοῖς δ. debating arguments, Id. APo. 78a12: generally, talk, chat, Cic. Att. 5.5.2.

II speech, series of speeches, debate

perh. speech or series of speeches, debate (cf. διάλεξις), IG 3.1128, al.

III

= διαλογισμός I, PHib. 1.122 (iii B.C.), PTeb. 58.31 (ii B.C.).

In the wild

διαλόγοις̓ · dialogois Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1692)
διάλογον · dialogon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.10 (DIORISIS sentence 1921)
Διαλόγους · Dialogous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.10 (DIORISIS sentence 1891)
διάλογοι · dialogoi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.11 (DIORISIS sentence 1986)
διαλόγους · dialogous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.12 (DIORISIS sentence 1999)
διαλόγους · dialogous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.13 (DIORISIS sentence 2018)

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