# ἀλλότριος
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ἀλλότερρος (allóterrhos) — Aeolic

### Etymology

From ἄλλος (állos, “other”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /al.ló.tri.os/ → /alˈlo.tri.os/ → /aˈlo.tri.os/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /al.ló.tri.os/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /alˈlo.tri.os/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /alˈlo.tri.os/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /alˈlo.tri.os/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /aˈlo.tri.os/

### Adjective

ἀλλότρῐος • (allótrĭos) m (feminine ἀλλοτρίᾱ, neuter ἀλλότρῐον); first/second declension
* of or belonging to another
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.160
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.535
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.298
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 448
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.452
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.347
** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 146
** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1259
** 399 BCE, Plato, Euthyphro 4B
** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 392
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 599
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Agesilaus 4.1
** Theopompus Comicus, Collected Works 34
* foreign, strange, alien
** (of persons)
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 18.219
*** 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 481
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.214
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 16.102
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.155
*** 399 BCE, Plato, Euthyphro 4B
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Ergocles 6
*** 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Girl who has her hair cropped 2
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.119
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1162A.3
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Plataicus 51
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 28.4.4
*** 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 16.65
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 36.15.7
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 36.15.2
** (of things)
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 491D
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 185
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Funeral Oration 6
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Helen 50
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.73
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Philon 34
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 182
*** foreign to the subject, not to the purpose
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 1218B.23
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1159B.24
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Categories 15B.29
* (adverbial)
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Olympic Oration 1
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 159
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Philip 80
** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 9
** strangely, marvelously

#### Derived terms

* ἀλλοτριόω (allotrióō)

#### Descendants

* German: Allotria
* Italian: allotrio

### Further reading

* “ἀλλότριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἀλλότριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἀλλότριος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἀλλότριος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἀλλότριος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* ἀλλότριος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* “ἀλλότριος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G245 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. alien idem, page 22.another idem, page 31.estrange idem, page 284.external idem, page 296.extraneous idem, page 297.foreign idem, page 336.other idem, page 581.strange idem, page 823.variance idem, page 944.