Dictionary entry

G00243

An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon Keyed to Strong's Numbers

ἄλλος

I. "alius, another, one besides", ἄλλος μέν., ἄλλος δέ., "one"., "another"., Il.; ἄλλος τις or τὶς ἄλλος, "any other, some other"; οὐδεὶς ἄλλος no other; εἴ τις ἄλλος, Lat. si quis alius, any one else.

2. repeated, ἄλλος ἄλλο λέγει "one man" says "one thing, one another", i. e. "different men say different things"; ἄλλος ἄλλῃ ἐτράπετο Xen.; λείπουσι τὸν λόφον ἄλλοι ἄλλοθεν id=Xen.;—v. ἀλλαχῆ.

3. ἄλλος καὶ ἄλλος, "one or two"; ἄλλο καὶ ἄλλο "one thing after another", id=Xen.

4. joined with the Art., ὁ ἄλλος, "the other"; in pl., οἱ ἄλλοι (ionic ὧλλοι), "all the others, the rest"; Lat. ceteri; τὰ ἄλλα, contr. τἆλλα or τἄλλα Lat. cetera, reliqua, not "alia";— οὕ τε ἄλλοι καὶ.. both all "the others" and.., i. e. especially..

5. with Numerals, "yet, still", πέμπτος ποταμὸς ἄλλος "yet" a fifth river, Hdt.: with a Sup., ὀϊζυρώτατος ἄλλων most wretched of "all besides", Od.

II. rarely like ἀλλοῖος, "of other sort, different", Il.: hence

2. sometimes like a comp., c. gen., ἄλλα τῶν δικαίων "other than" just, Xen.; followed by ἤ.., when a negat. goes before, οὐδὲν ἄλλο, ἤ.., nothing "else" than.., Hdt., etc.