ἀθυρόγλωττος
πρὶν τοὺς ἰχθῦς ἑλεῖν σὺ τὴν ἅλμην κυκᾷς → you're mixing the sauce before catching the fish | don't count your chickens before they are hatched | don't count your chickens before they hatch | first catch your hare | first catch your rabbit | first catch your rabbit and then make your stew | first catch your hare, then cook it | first catch your hare, then cook him
English (LSJ)
ον, or ἀθυρόγλωσσος, loquacious, incapable of holding one's tongue, one that cannot keep his mouth shut, ceaseless babbler, E. Or. 903.
Spanish (DGE)
(ἀθῠρόγλωσσος) -ον
• Alolema(s): ἀθυρόγλωττος Epiph.Const.Haer.26.10.10, 26.17.4, Eust.723.51, Sud.s.u. ἀλογεῖν
1 charlatán, gárrulo, ἀνήρ τις E.Or.903, cf. Poll.2.109, AP 16.132 (Theodorid.), Clem.Al.Strom.7.7.44, de Cicerón, D.C.46.18.4, τόλμη Epiph.Const.Haer.26.17.4, πόρναις δὲ καὶ ἀθυρογλώττοις ὁμοδίαιτος ὑπάρχειν Sud.l.c.
•subst. τὸ ἀθυρόγλωσσον = la garrulería Eust.l.c.
2 adv. ἀθυρογλώττως = gárrulamente, ἀθυρογλώττως βλασφημοῦντες Epiph.Const.Haer.26.10.10.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ος, ον :
d'une langue sans frein, bavard impénitent.
Étymologie: ἄθυρος, γλῶττα.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἀθῠρόγλωττος: невоздержанный (дерзкий) на язык (ἀνήρ Eur.).
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀθῠρόγλωττος: -ον, ὁ μὴ δυνάμενος νὰ τηρήσῃ τὸ στόμα κλειστὸν ἐκ τῆς ἀθυρογλωσσίας (ᾧ γλώσσῃ θύραι οὐκ ἐπίκεινται, Θέογν. 421), ὁ ἔχων στόμα ἀπύλωτον, ὁ ἀδιακόπως λαλῶν, Εὐρ. Ὀρ. 903.
Greek Monotonic
ἀθῠρόγλωττος: -ον (θύρα, γλῶττα), αυτός που δεν μπορεί να κρατήσει το στόμα του κλειστό, που φλυαρεί αδιάκοπα, πολυλογάς, σε Ευρ.
Middle Liddell
θύρα, γλῶττα
one that cannot keep his mouth shut, a ceaseless babbler, Eur.
