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Adler number: alpha,1445
Translated headword: alpha
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Indeclinables, such as alpha, give a nominative sense [when] without an article; if with an article [it is that] of an oblique case.[1]
The sound of the alpha, the first and chief letter, took its name from the Hebrew aleph; so that the sacred letters are discoveries of Abraham, even if Greeks amused themselves by forming the letters differently.[2]
Greek Original:Alpha: hoti ta aklita, hoion to alpha, chôris arthrou didôsin huponoian eutheias, ei de sun arthrôi plagias ptôseôs. hoti hê tou alpha phônê, tou prôtou stoicheiou kai archontos, apo tou Aleph Hebraiou tên epiklêsin elaben: hôste ta hiera grammata heurêmata einai tou Abraam, kan allôs kai allôs heautous diapaizontes anagraphôsin Hellênes.
Notes:
[1] This grammatical material has no exact parallel elsewhere.
[2] This supplementary paragraph draws on the long "Abraham" entry,
alpha 69.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 June 2000@10:40:14.
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