ἄλλως + ζῶ
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
ἀλαζών
Word-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
alazōn
English translation (word)
braggart
Transliteration (Etymon)
allōs + zô
English translation (etymon)
otherwise + to live
Century
3 BC
Source
Etym. Gudianum
Ref.
Etym. Gudianum
Ed.
E.L. de Stefani, Etymologicum Gudianum, fasc. 1 & 2, Leipzig: Teubner, 1:1909; 2:1920 (repr. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1965)
Quotation
Ἀλαζών· ὁ ἀπατεὼν καὶ κομπαστής· εἴρηται δὲ ὁ ἐν ἄλῃ καὶ πλάνῃ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ περιϊέναι ζῶν· ἤ, ὡς Χρύσιππος <fr. deest ap. Arnim>, ὁ ἄλλως ζῶν οὐκ ἀπὸ ἐπιτηδευμάτων, ἀλλὰ ἀπάτης.
Translation (En)
Alazōn "braggart: the one fooling and bombasting. It comes from alē "wandering" and "to live" (zôn) from one's wanderings. Or, as Chrysippus says, the one who lives (zôn) otherwise (allōs), not from his occupations, but from fooling others
Parallels
Scholi. Aristophanem, Nub. 449d beta (recentiora) (ἀλαζών p.i.m.] ἐπηρμένος· ἀπὸ τοῦ οἴεσθαι τοῦτο<ν> ἄλλην ζωὴν ζῆν ἤγουν οὐ μετέχειν τῆς κοινῆς φύσεως)
Modern etymology
Unknown (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG still has αλαζόνας "braggart" as a learned word
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Compositional etymology starting from the last syllable, identified as the participle ζῶν "living" (see ἀλαζών / ἄλη + ζῶ), here to be understood as "to make a living". The first member is identified as the adjective ἄλλος (here under the form of the adverb ἄλλως): the braggart is the one who makes a leaving not as others do but otherwise.