διάλεκτ-ος, ἡ,
discourse, conversation, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 30; θεοῖς πρὸς ἀνθρώπους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 203a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; discussion, debate, argument, [[ [prev. author] “Tht.” 146b ] Refs]; opposed to ἔρις, [[ [prev. author] “R.” 454a. ] Refs]
__2 common language, talk, δ. ἡ πρὸς ἀλλήλους [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1449a26; ἡ εἰωθυῖα δ. [prev. author] “Rh.” 1404b24. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II speech, language, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 685; καινὴν δ. λαλῶν 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 171 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. ἀμνίου, opposed to τὰ ἔνδον δράκοντος, [[ 5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; articulate speech, language, opposed to φωνή, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 535a28; τοῦ ἀνθρώπου μία φωνή, ἀλλὰ διάλεκτοι πολλαί [prev. author] “Pr.” 895a6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; but also, spoken, opposed to written language, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 11. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II.2 the language of a country, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.80.6, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 5.6, etc.] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: especially dialect, as Ionic, Attic, etc., [[ 2nd c.BC: Diogenes Babylonius Stoicus 3.213, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 3, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.59, Hdn.Gr. 2.932 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; also, local word or expression, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 31. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]