ἀλύω

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἁλύω (halúō) — Attic
• ἀλυίω (aluíō) — Aeolic

Etymology

From ἄλυς (álus, “agitation”). May be related to Latin alucinor (“to wander in mind, talk idly, prate, dream”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.lý.ɔː/ → /aˈly.o/ → /aˈli.o/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.lý.ɔː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈly.o/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈly.o/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈly.o/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈli.o/

Verb

ἀλύω • (alúō)

1. to be stirred or excited
2. to be distraught
3. to be perplexed
4. to be weary, bored
5. (Koine) to wander

Inflection

   Present: ᾰ̓λῠ́ω

number		singular			dual		plural
		first	second	third	second	third	first	second	third
active	indicative	ᾰ̓λῠ́ω	ᾰ̓λῠ́εις	ᾰ̓λῠ́ει	ᾰ̓λῠ́ετον	ᾰ̓λῠ́ετον	ᾰ̓λῠ́ομεν	ᾰ̓λῠ́ετε	ᾰ̓λῠ́ουσῐ(ν)
	subjunctive	ᾰ̓λῠ́ω	ᾰ̓λῠ́ῃς	ᾰ̓λῠ́ῃ	ᾰ̓λῠ́ητον	ᾰ̓λῠ́ητον	ᾰ̓λῠ́ωμεν	ᾰ̓λῠ́ητε	ᾰ̓λῠ́ωσῐ(ν)
	optative	ᾰ̓λῠ́οιμῐ	ᾰ̓λῠ́οις	ᾰ̓λῠ́οι	ᾰ̓λῠ́οιτον	ᾰ̓λῠοίτην	ᾰ̓λῠ́οιμεν	ᾰ̓λῠ́οιτε	ᾰ̓λῠ́οιεν
	imperative		ᾰ̓́λῠε	ᾰ̓λῠέτω	ᾰ̓λῠ́ετον	ᾰ̓λῠέτων		ᾰ̓λῠ́ετε	ᾰ̓λῠόντων
		active
infinitive		ᾰ̓λῠ́ειν
participle	m	ᾰ̓λῠ́ων
	f	ᾰ̓λῠ́ουσᾰ
	n	ᾰ̓λῠ́ον
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.

Further reading

• “ἀλύω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀλύω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀλύω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἀλύω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀλύω”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ἀλύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • distract idem, page 242.
  • frantic idem, page 343.
  • frenzied idem, page 344.
  • mad idem, page 506.
  • rave idem, page 674.
  • wander idem, page 961.