διάλεκτος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[discourse]], [[conversation]], Hp.''Art.''30; θεοῖς πρὸς ἀνθρώπους Pl.''Smp.''203a; [[discussion]], [[debate]], [[argument]], Id.''Tht.''146b; opp. [[ἔρις]], Id.''R.''454a.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[common]] [[language]], [[talk]], δ. ἡ πρὸς ἀλλήλους Arist.''Po.''1449a26; ἡ εἰωθυῖα δ. Id.''Rh.'' 1404b24.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[speech]], [[language]], Ar.''Fr.''685; καινὴν δ. λαλῶν Antiph. 171; <b class="b3">διάλεκτος ἀμνίου</b>, opp. <b class="b3">τὰ ἔνδον δράκοντος</b>, Hermipp.3; [[articulate]] [[speech]], [[language]], opp. [[φωνή]], Arist.''HA''535a28; τοῦ ἀνθρώπου μία φωνή, ἀλλὰ διάλεκτοι πολλαί Id.''Pr.''895a6; but also, [[spoken]], opp. [[written]] [[language]], [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|D.H.]]''[[De Compositione Verborum|Comp.]]''11.<br><span class="bld">2</span> the [[language]] of a [[country]], Plb.1.80.6, D.S.5.6, etc.: esp. [[dialect]], as Ionic, Attic, etc., Diog.Bab.Stoic.3.213, [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|D.H.]]''[[De Compositione Verborum|Comp.]]''3, S.E.''M.''1.59, Hdn.Gr.2.932; also, [[local]] [[word]] or [[local]] [[expression]], Plu.''Alex.''31.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[way of speaking]], [[accent]], D.37.55.<br><span class="bld">2</span> pl., [[mode]]s of [[expression]], Epicur.''Ep.''1p.24U.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[style]], <b class="b3">πανηγυρικὴ διάλεκτος, ποιητικὴ διάλεκτος</b>, [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|D.H.]]''[[De Compositione Verborum|Comp.]]''23,21: esp. [[poetical]] [[diction]], Phld.''Po.'' 2 ''Fr.''33, al.<br><span class="bld">V</span> of musical instruments, [[quality]], '[[idiom]]', Arist. ''de An.''420b8.