ἀλλαγή

See also: αλλαγή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ultimately from ἄλλος (állos, “other”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /al.la.ɡɛ̌ː/ → /al.laˈʝi/ → /a.laˈʝi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /al.la.ɡɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /al.laˈɡe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /al.laˈʝi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /al.laˈʝi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.laˈʝi/

Noun

ἀλλᾰγή • (allăgḗ) f (genitive ἀλλᾰγῆς); first declension

1. (in general) change
2. exchange, barter, buying and selling
3. (economics) agio, whether premium or discount
4. change of posthorses, stage

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἀλλᾰγή; τῆς ἀλλᾰγῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀλλᾰγή hē allăgḗ	τὼ ἀλλᾰγᾱ́ tṑ allăgā́	αἱ ἀλλᾰγαί hai allăgaí
Genitive	τῆς ἀλλᾰγῆς tês allăgês	τοῖν ἀλλᾰγαῖν toîn allăgaîn	τῶν ἀλλᾰγῶν tôn allăgôn
Dative	τῇ ἀλλᾰγῇ tēî allăgēî	τοῖν ἀλλᾰγαῖν toîn allăgaîn	ταῖς ἀλλᾰγαῖς taîs allăgaîs
Accusative	τὴν ἀλλᾰγήν tḕn allăgḗn	τὼ ἀλλᾰγᾱ́ tṑ allăgā́	τᾱ̀ς ἀλλᾰγᾱ́ς tā̀s allăgā́s
Vocative	ἀλλᾰγή allăgḗ	ἀλλᾰγᾱ́ allăgā́	ἀλλᾰγαί allăgaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀπαλλαγή (apallagḗ)

Descendants

• Greek: αλλαγή (allagí)

Further reading

• “ἀλλαγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀλλαγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀλλαγή in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀλλαγή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• ἀλλαγή, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011