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ἀλέκτωρ (A), [α^], ορος, ὁ, poet. form of ἀλεκτρυών,
A.cock, “ἕως ἐβόησεν ἀ.” Batr.192, cf. Pi.O.12.14, Simon.80 B, A.Ag.1671, Eu.861, Herod.4.12, etc.; later Prose, Arist.Fr.347, PTeb.140 (i B. C.)LXX Pr.24.66 (30.31), Ev.Matt.26.34,al., IG3.77: metaph., of a trumpeter, “κοινὸς Ἀθηναίων ἀ.” Demad.Fr.4; of a flute, Ion Trag.39.
2. ἀλέκτορος λόφος yellow rattle, Rhinanthusmajor, Plin.HN27.40.
II. husband, consort, Tz.ad Lyc.1094, and so perh. in B.4.8, S.Fr.851. (Perh., like ἀκοίτης, ἄλοχος, from ἀ- copul., λέκτρον).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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