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|strgr=of [[Hebrew]] [[origin]]; the [[first]] [[letter]] of the [[alphabet]]; [[figuratively]], [[only]] (from its [[use]] as a [[numeral]]) the [[first]]: Alpha. Often used ([[usually]] an, [[before]] a vowel) [[also]] in [[composition]] (as a [[contraction]] from [[ἄνευ]]) in the [[sense]] of [[privation]]; so, in [[many]] words, [[beginning]] [[with]] [[this]] [[letter]]; [[occasionally]] in the [[sense]] of [[union]] (as a [[contraction]] of [[ἅμα]]). | |strgr=of [[Hebrew]] [[origin]]; the [[first]] [[letter]] of the [[alphabet]]; [[figuratively]], [[only]] (from its [[use]] as a [[numeral]]) the [[first]]: Alpha. Often used ([[usually]] an, [[before]] a vowel) [[also]] in [[composition]] (as a [[contraction]] from [[ἄνευ]]) in the [[sense]] of [[privation]]; so, in [[many]] words, [[beginning]] [[with]] [[this]] [[letter]]; [[occasionally]] in the [[sense]] of [[union]] (as a [[contraction]] of [[ἅμα]]). | ||
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|txtha=[[ἄλφα]] τό, the [[first]] [[letter]] of the Greek [[alphabet]], [[opening]] the [[series]] [[which]] the [[letter]] omega ω closes. Hence, the [[expression]] [[ἐγώ]] [[εἰμί]] τό Α (L T Tr WH [[ἄλφα]]) καί τό Ω (Ὦ L WH), Rec., [[which]] is explained by the appended words ἡ [[ἀρχή]] καί τό [[τέλος]], ὁ [[πρῶτος]] καί ὁ [[ἔσχατος]], B. D. American edition, p. 73). Α, [[when]] prefixed to words as an [[inseparable]] [[syllable]], is:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> privative (στερητικόν), [[like]] the Latin in-, the English un-, giving a [[negative]] [[sense]] to the [[word]] to [[which]] it is prefixed, as [[ἀβαρής]]; or signifying [[what]] is [[contrary]] to it, as [[ἄτιμος]], [[ἀτιμόω]]; [[before]] [[vowels]] [[generally]] αν(, as in [[ἀναίτιος]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> copulative (ἀθροιστικόν), [[akin]] to the [[particle]] [[ἅμα]] (cf. [[Curtius]], § 598), indicating [[community]] and fellowship, as in [[ἀδελφός]], [[ἀκόλουθος]]. Hence, it is:<br /><b class="num">3.</b> intensive (ἐπιτατικόν), strengthening the [[force]] of terms, [[like]] the Latin con in [[composition]]; as [[ἀτενίζω]] from [[ἀτενής]] ([[yet]] cf. Winer s Grammar, 100 (95)). This [[use]], [[however]], is doubted or denied [[now]] by [[many]] (e. g. Lob. Path. Element. i. 34 f). Cf. Kühner, i. 741, § 339 Anm. 5; (Jelf, § 342 δ.); [[Alexander]] Buttmann (1873) Gram. § 120 Anm. 11; (Donaldson, Gram., p. 334; New Crat. §§ 185,213; Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]]). | |||
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