Dictionary entry

G00245

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

ἀλλότριος

Etym. ἄλλος

I. opp. to ἴδιος, "of or belonging to another", Lat. alienus, Hom., etc.; ἀλλ. γυνή "another man's" wife, Aesch.; γναθμοῖσι γελοίων ἀλλοτρίοισιν, of the suitors, laughed with a face "unlike one's own", of "a forced, unnatural" laugh, Od. (Horace's "malis ridere alienis" is different); ἀλλ. ὄμμασιν by "the help of another's" eyes, Soph.; ἀλλοτριωτάτοις τοῖς σώμασιν χρῆσθαι to deal with one's body "as if it absolutely belonged to another", Thuc.

II. opp. to οἰκεῖος, "foreign, strange", Lat. peregrinus, Hom.; often with the notion of "hostile", Il.

III. adv., ἀλλοτρίως ἔχειν or διακεῖσθαι πρός τινα to be "unfavourably" disposed towards one, Lys.: comp. -ιώτερον less "favourably", Dem.