Dialogue

  1 Craty|           degrees of imitation; a word is either the perfect expression
  2 Craty|          flux is contained in the word ousia (= osia the pushing
  3 Craty|        not alter the sense of the word, or prevent the whole name
  4 Craty|           an epsilon) is the same word as eros (with an eta): ‘
  5 Craty|            But more probably, the word is Orphic, and simply denotes
  6 Craty|          out of the earth; or the word may be a euphemism for Hades,
  7 Craty|     transposed the letters of the word aer. Pherephatta, that word
  8 Craty|       word aer. Pherephatta, that word of awe, is pheretapha, which
  9 Craty|          theonoe, or possibly the word was originally ethonoe and
 10 Craty|         in Phrygian, is a foreign word; for the Hellenes have borrowed
 11 Craty|       ginetai (compare the poetic word aetai). So aither quasi
 12 Craty|           or gignomenon esis; the word neos implies that creation
 13 Craty|          tou dikaiou sunesis. The word dikaion is more troublesome,
 14 Craty|    flourish (tethelenai), and the word thallein itself implies
 15 Craty|         has the letter rho in the word katoptron, or the letter
 16 Craty|           the letter sigma in the word sphigx? The additions are
 17 Craty|          to make out the original word; and yet, if you may put
 18 Craty|  derivation is illustrated by the word deilia, which ought to have
 19 Craty|            That is a very obscure word, to which I can only apply
 20 Craty|           that kakon is a foreign word. Next, let us proceed to
 21 Craty|        which gives increase: this word, which is Homeric, is of
 22 Craty|       bind the stream. The proper word would be boulapteroun, but
 23 Craty|          in honour of Athene. The word zemiodes is difficult; great
 24 Craty|      their meaning very much. The word deon is one of these disguised
 25 Craty|          shows the meaning of the word to have been ‘the desired
 26 Craty|          go: algedon is a foreign word, and is so called apo tou
 27 Craty|        analyzed. For example; the word agathos was supposed by
 28 Craty|      resolvable. But if we take a word of which no further resolution
 29 Craty|           and the truth of such a word must be tested by some new
 30 Craty|          plenty of omicron in the word goggulon. That is my view,
 31 Craty|     nothing;—you cannot utter the word which is not. Socrates complains
 32 Craty|       what business has this in a word meaning hardness? ‘Why,
 33 Craty|        past history; the use of a word in a striking and familiar
 34 Craty|        structures, and that every word in them is related to every
 35 Craty|           there is an old Homeric word emesato, meaning “he contrived”;’ ‘
 36 Craty|          And so the cry becomes a word. The hearer in turn gives
 37 Craty|     hearer in turn gives back the word to the speaker, who is now
 38 Craty|         speech.~After a while the word gathers associations, and
 39 Craty|          even play with them. The word is separated both from the
 40 Craty|          symbolical or analogical word was refined into a notion;
 41 Craty|         or unchanging part of the word and of the changing inflexion,
 42 Craty|          like. The picture of the word which was beginning to be
 43 Craty|    combination of them into a new word; there is the distinction
 44 Craty|        meaning of a sentence or a word when applied to primitive
 45 Craty|        the original form than the word, and that the later stage
 46 Craty|   formation or pronunciation of a word; he may have been imitated
 47 Craty|         he introduced in a single word may have become the type
 48 Craty|          or mispronunciation of a word. Still less, even in schools
 49 Craty|           more than this—that the word ‘fittest to survive’ survives,
 50 Craty|          But if he means that the word or the meaning of the word
 51 Craty|        word or the meaning of the word or some portion of the word
 52 Craty|       word or some portion of the word which comes into use or
 53 Craty|        favourite fiction that one word is put in the place of another;
 54 Craty|     another; the truth is that no word is ever put for another.
 55 Craty|           another fiction, that a word has been omitted: words
 56 Craty|          every sentence, in every word and every termination of
 57 Craty|        and every termination of a word, this power of forming relations
 58 Craty|     sensibility, which adapts the word to the thing, adapts the
 59 Craty|       fulness of the sound of the word corresponds to the thing
 60 Craty|         gesticulation. A sound or word is not the work of the vocal
 61 Craty|      alter any received form of a word in order to render it more
 62 Craty|           the adaptation of every word, syllable, letter to one
 63 Craty|   formation or pronunciation of a word (c) the necessity of finding
 64 Craty| associated is increased. A single word is thus made to do duty
 65 Craty|   distinct. A figurative use of a word may easily pass into a new
 66 Craty|        good or neutral sense of a word, such as Jesuit, Puritan,
 67 Craty|           the form or accent of a word has been not unfrequently
 68 Craty|           on the character of the word. Striking words and expressions
 69 Craty|          twice over, when another word or turn of expression would
 70 Craty|     rejects the repetition of the word and the use of a mere synonym
 71 Craty|         idiom. The meaning of the word ‘idiom’ is that which is
 72 Craty|       that which is familiar, the word or expression which strikes
 73 Craty|        natural and necessary. The word or phrase which has been
 74 Craty|          used for ourselves a new word or phrase or figure of speech.~
 75 Craty|           of sense by which every word is linked to every other.
 76 Craty|           it. In any new use of a word all the existing uses of
 77 Craty|           Lexicons assign to each word a definite meaning or meanings.
 78 Craty|         the sentence precedes the word and that all language is
 79 Craty|           or universally known. A word or two may be sufficient
 80 Craty|         to be the meaning of this word? Tell me if my view is right.~
 81 Craty|          know how Hesiod uses the word?~HERMOGENES: I do not.~SOCRATES:
 82 Craty|           older Attic dialect the word itself occurs. Now he and
 83 Craty|        what is the meaning of the word ‘hero’? (Eros with an eta,
 84 Craty|           a Goddess; think of the word in the old Attic, and you
 85 Craty|            Take, for example, the word Dii Philos; in order to
 86 Craty|            I mean to say that the word ‘man’ implies that other
 87 Craty|        ask you to examine another word about which I am curious?~
 88 Craty|        the natural fitness of the word psuche (soul), and then
 89 Craty|            soul), and then of the word soma (body)?~HERMOGENES:
 90 Craty|          shall we say of the next word?~SOCRATES: You mean soma (
 91 Craty|          not even a letter of the word need be changed.~HERMOGENES:
 92 Craty|           The meaning is that the word theonoa = theounoa is a
 93 Craty|         as I was telling you, the word eirein is expressive of
 94 Craty|           often-recurring Homeric word emesato, which means ‘he
 95 Craty| HERMOGENES: How so?~SOCRATES: The word seems to forestall his recent
 96 Craty|           great difficulty in the word. Please, however, to note
 97 Craty|           is not foreign; for the word is not easily brought into
 98 Craty|         observed to have the same word slightly changed, just as
 99 Craty|        either term he employs the word air (aer = aetes rheo).
100 Craty|         reon). The meaning of the word ge (earth) comes out better
101 Craty|          here is noesis, the very word just now mentioned, which
102 Craty|           desire of the new); the word neos implies that the world
103 Craty|          of a double epsilon. The word sophrosune is the salvation (
104 Craty|        behind them; wherefore the word should rather be read as
105 Craty|           kind of conclusion; the word is derived from sunienai (
106 Craty|       rapid motion, often use the word esuthe (he rushed); and
107 Craty|          Sous (Rush), for by this word the Lacedaemonians signify
108 Craty|         the just); but the actual word dikaion is more difficult:
109 Craty|          I suspect to be the same word as goun (birth): thelu (
110 Craty|       SOCRATES: Yes; and the very word thallein (to flourish) seems
111 Craty|       There is the meaning of the word techne (art), for example.~
112 Craty|            Take, for example, the word katoptron; why is the letter
113 Craty|           original meaning of the word. Another example is the
114 Craty|            Another example is the word sphigx, sphiggos, which
115 Craty|      mekos and anein, make up the word mechane. But, as I was saying,
116 Craty|           I fear, is not the only word which has been passed over.
117 Craty|     motion and movement. Then the word kakia appears to mean kakos
118 Craty|        think that if the previous word kakia was right, then arete
119 Craty|           That is a very singular word about which I can hardly
120 Craty|        which I shall give to this word also.~HERMOGENES: Very likely
121 Craty|      examples,—for it is a sister word to episteme, meaning just
122 Craty|          at the meaning; for this word also signifies good, but
123 Craty|          the good; in forming the word, however, he inserted a
124 Craty|        retailer, but they use the word in the sense of swift. You
125 Craty|        latter is a common Homeric word, and has a foreign character.~
126 Craty|   HERMOGENES: Good.~SOCRATES: The word blaberon is that which is
127 Craty|        names; and when I hear the word boulapteroun I cannot help
128 Craty|         sense; I may instance the word deon, which occurs to me
129 Craty|         ought to be duogon, which word expresses the binding of
130 Craty|     thought I may remark that the word deon (obligation) has a
131 Craty|       after the old fashion, this word will then agree with other
132 Craty|        further illustrated by the word zemiodes (hurtful), which
133 Craty|        not mistaken, is a foreign word, which is derived from aleinos (
134 Craty|         achthedon (vexation) ‘the word too labours,’ as any one
135 Craty|           you not give me another word?~HERMOGENES: What do you
136 Craty|          is the derivation of the word anagkaion (necessary) an
137 Craty|     forgetting to enquire why the word onoma (name), which is the
138 Craty|            SOCRATES: You know the word maiesthai (to seek)?~HERMOGENES:
139 Craty|           enquire).~SOCRATES: The word onoma seems to be a compressed
140 Craty|           original meaning of the word is disguised by the addition
141 Craty|           say to you, what is the word ion, and what are reon and
142 Craty|       made up of other names? The word agathon (good), for example,
143 Craty|          others. But if we take a word which is incapable of further
144 Craty|        the meaning of this latter word, which is just iesis (going);
145 Craty|        same as ienai. And the old word kinesis will be correctly
146 Craty|         leios (level), and in the word oliothanein (to slip) itself,
147 Craty|           liparon (sleek), in the word kollodes (gluey), and the
148 Craty|           omicron mixed up in the word goggulon (round). Thus did
149 Craty|        such as you have, and in a word copies all your qualities,
150 Craty|       beauty and formation of the word: you would admit that?~CRATYLUS:
151 Craty|     SOCRATES: Good. But still the word is intelligible to both
152 Craty|        observe how ambiguous this word is, seeming rather to signify
153 Craty|         not of motion. Again, the word istoria (enquiry) bears
154 Craty|            of the stream; and the word piston (faithful) certainly
155 Craty|       retire and vanish while the word is in our mouths?~CRATYLUS: