allex

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈal.lɛks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal.leks]

allex m (genitive allicis); third declension

1. (hapax legomenon) the big toe
   • c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 5.5.31, (By 'big toe of a man' the character is called short):

     […] tūne hīc amātor audēs esse, allex virī […]

     […] do you dare to be the lover here, you big toe of a man […]

Third-declension noun.

• pollex

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈal.leːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal.leks]

allēx n (genitive allēcis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) alternative spelling of allēc

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• “allex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• allex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.