ἀλόη

See also: ἀλωή

Ancient Greek

ἀλόη illustration in the Vienna Dioscurides

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew אֲהָלִים (ʾăhālîm), ultimately from a Dravidian language.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ló.ɛː/ → /aˈlo.i/ → /aˈlo.i/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ló.ɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈlo.e̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈlo.i/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈlo.i/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈlo.i/

Noun

ἀλόη • (alóē) f (genitive ἀλόης); first declension

1. aloe ()

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀλόη; τῆς ἀλόης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀλόη hē alóē	τὼ ἀλόᾱ tṑ alóā	αἱ ἀλόαι hai alóai
Genitive	τῆς ἀλόης tês alóēs	τοῖν ἀλόαιν toîn alóain	τῶν ἀλοῶν tôn aloôn
Dative	τῇ ἀλόῃ têi alóēi	τοῖν ἀλόαιν toîn alóain	ταῖς ἀλόαις taîs alóais
Accusative	τὴν ἀλόην tḕn alóēn	τὼ ἀλόᾱ tṑ alóā	τᾱ̀ς ἀλόᾱς tā̀s alóās
Vocative	ἀλόη alóē	ἀλόᾱ alóā	ἀλόαι alóai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αλόη f (alói)
• → Latin: aloē (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Armenian: հալուէ (haluē)
  • → Armenian: հալվե (halve) (learned)

Further reading

• “ἀλόη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀλόη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀλόη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G250 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN