STRONGS G1258:
διάλεκτος,
-ου,
ἡ, (
διαλέγω);
1. conversation, speech, discourse, language (Plato, Demosthenes, others).
2. from Polybius [cf. Aristotle, probl. 10, 38
τοῦ ἀνθρώπου μία φωνή,
ἀλλὰ διάλεκτοι πολλαί) down,
the tongue or
language peculiar to any people:
Acts 1:19;
Acts 2:6,
8;
Acts 21:40;
Acts 22:2;
Acts 26:14. (Polybius 1, 80, 6; 3, 22, 3; 40, 6, 3f;
μεθερμηνεύειν εἰς τὴν Ἑλλήνων διάλεκτον, Diodorus 1, 37;
πᾶσα μὲν διάλεκτος,
ἡ δ’ ἑλληνικἡ διαφερόντως ὀνομάτων πλουτεῖ, Philo, vit. Moys. ii. § 7; [cf. Mϋller on Josephus, contra Apion 1, 22, 4 at the end].)
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