{
  "headword": "ἀ-",
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  "citations": [],
  "senses": [
    {
      "definition": "",
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            {
              "label": "I",
              "definition": "α στερητικόν (Sch. Od. 3.279, etc., cf. Eust. 985.16), expressing <i>want</i> or <i>absence</i> (cf. Arist. Metaph. 1022b32), as σοφός wise, ἄσοφος <i>un</i>wise: for <i>ṇ,</i> the weak form of the negative <i>ne,</i> commonly used in the formation of adjs. and advbs., very rarely in that of vbs. and substs., cf. ἀδώτης, ἀτιμάω, ἀτίω. Before a vowel it usu. appears as ἀν- (exc. where ϝ or <i>spiritus asper</i> has been lost, as ἄ-οινος, ἄ-υπνος, when it sts. coalesces with the following vowel, as ἀργός = ἀ-ϝεργός): the forms ἀνάεδνος, ἀνάελπτος are probably misspelt for ἀν-έϝεδνος, -έϝελπτος. Adjs. formed with it freq. take gen., esp. in Trag., cf. ἀλαμπὲς ἡλίου, = ἄνευ λάμψεως ἡλίου, S. Tr. 691. [ ᾰ, exc. in adjs. which begin with three short syllables, which have ᾱ in Ep., and freq. also in Lyr., Trag., and Com.; ἀθάνατος invariably has ᾱθ.]",
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              "citations": [],
              "children": []
            },
            {
              "label": "II",
              "definition": "α ἀθροιστικόν ( Eust. 641.61; τὸ ἄλφα σημαίνει πολλαχοῦ τὸ ὁμοῦ Pl. Cra. 405c), properly ἁ- since it represents <i>sṃ-</i> (cf. ἅμα, εἷς = sems), and so in ἁπλόος, ἁθρόος: but freq. ἀ- by dissimilation from following aspirate, as ἄ-λοχος, and hence by analogy in ἄ-κοιτις, etc., q.v.: sts. in the form ὀ-, as in ὄπατρος, ὀγάστριος, ὄζυξ. [ᾰ.]",
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              "citations": [
                {
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                  "data": {
                    "quote": "τὸ ἄλφα σημαίνει πολλαχοῦ τὸ ὁμοῦ",
                    "ref": "Pl. Cra. 405c",
                    "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg005.perseus-grc2:405c"
                  }
                }
              ],
              "children": []
            },
            {
              "label": "III",
              "definition": "α ἐπιτατικόν ( Eust. 641.61), strengthening the force of compds., as ἀ-τενής; prob. identical in etymology with II, from which it is distinguished by Gramm., who sts. confuse it with I; v. ἀδάκρυτος. [ᾰ.]",
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              "citations": [],
              "children": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
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  "key": "a)1",
  "type": "main"
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