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Unranked: appears fewer than 50 times in the corpus.

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Bacchylides
Hyperides
Pseudo-Callisthenes
Sophocles
Aristotle

α

α, the letter alpha

Α α, ἄλφα (q.v.), τό, indecl.,

first letter of the Gr. alphabet: as Numeral, αʹ = εἷς and πρῶτος, but ͵α = 1,000.

Α, α, ἄλφα (q.v.), τό, indecl.,

alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet. As a numeral, αʹ = 1, α͵ = 1000. As a prefix, it appears to have at least two and perhaps three distinct senses:

1. ἀ- (before a vowel, ἀν-) negative, as in ἄ-γνωστος, ἄ-δικος.

2. ἀ-, ἁ- copulative, indicating community and fellowship, as in ἁ-πλοῦς, ἀ-κολουθέω, ἀ-δελφός.

3. An intensive force (LS, s. α), as in ἀ-τενίζω is sometimes assumed (but v. Boisacq, s.v.).

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