ἄλεκτος
τὸν αὐτὸν ἔρανον ἀποδοῦναι → pay him back in his own coin, repay him in his own coin, pay someone back in their own coin, pay back in someone's own coin, give tit for tat, pay back in kind
English (LSJ)
ον, A not to be told, indescribable, Hp.Ep.13, Pherecr.157, Plb.30.22.12, App.Hann.40.
German (Pape)
[Seite 92] unaussprechlich, Pherecrat. B. A. 330; Pol. 30, 13, 12 u. Sp.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἄλεκτος: -ον, ἀνέκφραστος, ἀπερίγραπτος, ἄρρητος, Φερεκρ. Ἄδηλ. 20, Πολύβ. 30, 13.12, κτλ.
Spanish (DGE)
-ον
I 1indecible, indescriptible συμπαθείη Hp.Ep.13, ἄλεκτον ἦν τὸ συμβαῖνον Plb.30.22.12, σπουδὴ ἄ. ὑπὲρ τῆς νίκης Luc.Anach.12.
•neutr. como adv. ἄλεκτα παθεῖν Pherecr.168.
2 indivisible Hsch.
II adv. -ως indescriptiblemente Didym.M.39.520D.
Greek Monolingual
και άλεχτος, -η, -ο (Α ἄλεκτος, -ον)
αυτός που δεν μπορεί να λεχθεί, ανείπωτος, απερίγραπτος
νεοελλ.
αυτός που δεν λέχθηκε, δεν ειπώθηκε ακόμη.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < ἀ- στερητ. + λεκτὸς < λέγω.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἄλεκτος: λέγω III] невыразимый, неописуемый Polyb.
