λαλιά

Ancient Greek edit

λᾰ́λος (lálos) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā)

λᾰλῐᾱ́ • (laliā́) f (genitive λᾰλῐᾶς); first declension

talking, talk, chat
- 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 931
- 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1069
- 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Ἀρρηφ. 3, (Compare Hermesianax, Collected Works 78, Palatine Anthology 7.440)
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, Histories 3.20.5
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, Histories 32.9.4
- 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 8:43
1. talkativeness, loquacity
  - 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 34.29
  - 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, The Characters 7
a form of speech, dialect
- 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 26:73, (Compare Septuagint, Song of Songs 4.3)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λᾰλῐᾱ́ hē laliā́	τὼ λᾰλῐᾱ́ tṑ laliā́	αἱ λᾰλῐαί hai laliaí
Genitive	τῆς λᾰλῐᾶς tês laliâs	τοῖν λᾰλῐαῖν toîn laliaîn	τῶν λᾰλῐῶν tôn laliôn
Dative	τῇ λᾰλῐᾷ têi laliâi	τοῖν λᾰλῐαῖν toîn laliaîn	ταῖς λᾰλῐαῖς taîs laliaîs
Accusative	τὴν λᾰλῐᾱ́ν tḕn laliā́n	τὼ λᾰλῐᾱ́ tṑ laliā́	τᾱ̀ς λᾰλῐᾱ́ς tā̀s laliā́s
Vocative	λᾰλῐᾱ́ laliā́	λᾰλῐᾱ́ laliā́	λᾰλῐαί laliaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“λαλιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“λαλιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
λαλιά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G2981 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
LSJ 8th edition

λαλιά • (laliá) f (plural λαλιές)

speech, voice
μου κόβερται η λαλιά ― mou kóvertai i laliá ― my voice has failed
language
η ελληνική λαλιά ― i ellinikí laliá ― the Greek language

declension of λαλιά