Meanings
proper noun
alternative Lallage
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
"What's her name?" "Lalage." She pronounced it as a dactyl, the g hard. Still she could not raise her eyes. " Mr Rossetti approached me one day in the street. […] He himself proposed the name. He is her godfather." She murmured, "I know it is strange."
1969, John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN, page 359
Origin
- Ancient Greekλᾰλᾰγή“to prattle”
- EnglishLalage
From Ancient Greek λᾰλᾰγή (lălăgḗ, “to prattle”).
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APA
Lalage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lalage
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