βαττολογέω
εἰς τὴν ἀγορὰν χειροτονεῖτε τοὺς ταξιάρχους καὶ τοὺς φυλάρχους, οὐκ ἐπὶ τὸν πόλεμον → you elect taxiarchs and phylarchs for the marketplace not for war
English (LSJ)
A = βατταρίζω, speak stammeringly, say the same thing over and over again, Ev.Matt.6.7, Simp. in Epict.p.91D.
German (Pape)
[Seite 439] unnützes Zeug schwatzen, plappern, stammverwandt mit βατταρίζω, N. T. u. Sp.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
βαττολογέω: βατταρίζω, ὁμιλῶ τραυλίζων, ἐπαναλαμβάνω τὸ αὐτὸ πολλάκις (ὡς ποιοῦσιν οἱ ἔχοντες δυσκολίαν περὶ τὴν γλῶσσαν), Εὐαγγ. κ. Ματθ. Ϛ΄, 7, Σιμπλίκ. π. Ἐπίκτ. 340· - ῥηματ. ἐπίθ., -λογητέον, Ἐκκλ.· - ἐντεῦθεν βαττολογία, ἡ, = βατταρισμός, ματαιολογία, φλυαρία, Ἐκκλ., οἵτινες ὡσαύτως μετεχειρίζοντο τὴν λέξιν βαττολόγημα, τό, καὶ βαττολόγος, ὁ, ἡ. (Ἡ ῥίζα εἶναι τὸ κύριον ὄνομα Βάττος, ὅπερ φαίνεται ὡς ὀνοματοπ. ἀπό τινος τραυλίζοντος, πρβλ. Ἡρόδ. 4. 155· περὶ τῆς παροιμίας τὸ Βάττου σίλφιον, ἴδε σίλφιον).
French (Bailly abrégé)
-ῶ :
bredouiller, dire toujours la même chose ; bavarder.
Étymologie: Βάττος, λέγω³.
Spanish (DGE)
• Alolema(s): βατταλογέω Eu.Matt.6.7
1 repetir machaconamente las plegarias μὴ βατταλογήσητε ὥσπερ οἱ ἐθνικοί Eu.Matt.l.c., περὶ καθηκόντων δὲ βαττολογῶν Simp.in Epict.p.91.
2 hablar por hablar ἐν οἴνῳ μὴ βαττολόγει σοφίαν ἐπιδεικνύμενος Vit.Aesop.W.109, cf. Gr.Nyss.M.44.1129C, Ath.Al.M.26.25C.
English (Strong)
from Battos (a proverbial stammerer) and λόγος; to stutter, i.e. (by implication) to prate tediously: use vain repetitions.
English (Thayer)
(T WH βατταλογέω (with א B, see WH's Appendix, p. 152)), βαττολόγω: 1st aorist subjunctive βαττολογήσω;
a. to stammer, and, since stammerers are accustomed to repeat the same sounds,
b. to repeat the same things over and over, to use many and idle words, to babble, prate; so ἐν τῇ πολυλογία, (Vulg. multum loqui; (A. V. to use vain repetitions)); cf. Tholuck at the passage Some suppose the word to be derived from Battus, a king of Cyrene, who is said to have stuttered (Herodotus 4,155); others from Battus, an author of tedious and wordy poems; but comparing βατταρίζειν, which has the same meaning, and βάρβαρος (which see), it seems fax more probable that the word is onomatopoetic. (Simplicius, in Epictetus (ench. 30 at the end), p. 340, Schweigh edition.)
