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χείρων

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χείρων χείρωνος

Structure: χειρ (Stem) + ων (Comparative Ending)

Etym.: xei/r

Sense

worse, meaner, inferior, worse than others, a knave
worse, inferior
inferior
worse, more severe
the worse advice, ill counsels
it is or will be worse, well
in inferior degree, less
worst, men of lowest degree

Declension

Third declension

	M/F			Neuter
	Singular	Dual	Plural	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	χείρων	χείρονε	χείρονες	χεῖρον	χείρονε	χείρονα
Genitive	χείρονος	χειρόνοιν	χειρόνων	χείρονος	χειρόνοιν	χειρόνων
Dative	χείρονι	χειρόνοιν	χείροσιν*	χείρονι	χειρόνοιν	χείροσιν*
Accusative	χείρονα	χείρονε	χείρονας	χεῖρον	χείρονε	χείρονα
Vocative	χεῖρον	χείρονε	χείρονες	χεῖρον	χείρονε	χείρονα

	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	χείρων χείρονος	χείριστος χειρίστου
Adverb	χεῖρον	χείριστα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

ἡ διαφωνία τοῦ νῦν βίου πρὸσ τὸ σύγγραμμα, καὶ τὸ ἄνω τοὺσ ποταμοὺσ χωρεῖν καὶ ἀνεστράφθαι τὰ πάντα καὶ παλινῳδεῖν πρὸσ τὸ χεῖρον τοῦτ̓ ἂν εἰή οὐχ ὑπὲρ Ἑλένησ μὰ Δί̓ οὐδ̓ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐπ̓ Ἰλίῳ γενομένων, ἀλλ̓ ἔργῳ ἀνατρεπομένων τῶν λόγων, καλῶσ πρότερον εἰρῆσθαι δοκούντων. (Lucian, Apologia 5:1)
γεγράφθαι δὲ πρὸσ τοὐπίγραμμα, οὐ χεῖρον δὲ καὶ αὐτὸ εἰπεῖν, τοῖα παθόντ̓, οἶμαι, καὶ Τάνταλον αἴθοποσ ἰοῦ μηδαμὰ κοιμῆσαι διψαλέην ὀδύνην. (Lucian, Dipsades 10:2)
τό τε ἄμεινον ἢ χεῖρον ἐν τῷ ἀφανεῖ ἔτι προεώρα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 16 1:7)
ἠπίστατο γάρ, οἶμαι, καὶ οὗτοσ ὡσ πολλῶν ὄντων ἐν τῷ βίῳ ἀδικημάτων οὐδὲν ἄν τισ εὑρ́οι χεῖρον οὐδὲ ἀδικώτερον ἢ ἀκρίτουσ τινὰσ καὶ ἀμοίρουσ λόγων καταδεδικάσθαι· (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 8:10)
ὡσ γοῦν ἐπὶ πολὺ τὰ προσόντα τῷ διαβαλλομένῳ πρὸσ τὸ χεῖρον μεταβάλλοντεσ οὐκ ἀπιθάνουσ ποιοῦνται τὰσ κατηγορίασ, οἱο͂ν τὸν μὲν ἰατρὸν διαβάλλουσιν ὡσ φαρμακέα, τὸν πλούσιον δὲ ὡσ τύραννον, τὸν τυραννικὸν δὲ ὡσ προδοτικόν. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 13:2)

Synonyms

the worse advice
- βουλή (counsel, advice)
- δυσβουλία (ill counsel)
- συμβουλία (advice or counsel given, counsels)

βελτίων (better)
ταχυτής (quickness)
ἰνίον (the muscle at the back of the neck)
εὐστοχία (skill in shooting at a mark)
ἀπρίξ (with closed teeth)
ταύρειος (of bulls)
ὑποπόδιον (a footstool)
ἰγνύα (the part behind the thigh and knee)
ἀμείνων (better)
ἀτέραμνος (unsoftened)
στῆθος (chest)
διαμπάξ (right through)
θέναρ (the palm of the hand)
ἀνδρείκελος (like a man)
ἀνδρείκελον (an image of a man)
ὄρεγμα (an outstretching)
διαμαρτύρομαι (to protest solemnly)
γωρυτός (a bow-case)
πυκτικός (skilled in boxing)
ὕβριστος (wanton)
ἐπαλλάξ ()
θρίξ (hair)
σκύτινος (leathern)
σχοινίων (the sedge-bird)
σχοινίον (a cord)
μετάφρενον (the part behind the midriff)
ἀκοντίζω (to hurl a javelin)
φαρμακοποσία (a drinking of medicine)
χειρόμακτρον (a cloth for wiping the hands)
κολεόν (a sheath)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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