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ἀμείνων

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμείνων

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

Sense

  1. better, abler, stronger, braver
  2. better, fitter

Examples

  • τό τε ἄμεινον ἢ χεῖρον ἐν τῷ ἀφανεῖ ἔτι προεώρα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 16 1:7)
  • ἡ λύρα δὲ ἄλλωσ κτῆμα ἦν, οὐδὲν ἄμεινον τῶν ἄλλων βαρβίτων. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 12:4)
  • "ἄμεινόν ἐστι τῷ Πενθεῖ ἅπαξ σπαραχθῆναι ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ ἢ ὑπὸ σοῦ πολλάκισ. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 19:1)
  • ὡσ ἔγωγε, εἰ δικάζων ἐτύγχανον, ἐπὶ τῷ τοιούτῳ τὸ πλεῖον διατρῖψαι ἄν μοι δοκῶ, τὸν ἄμεινον βιοῦντα μᾶλλον ἢ τὸν ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ αὐτοῖσ προχειρότερον ζητῶν καὶ οἰκειότερον τῇ νίκῃ νομίζων. (Lucian, Eunuchus, (no name) 5:5)
  • εἰ γὰρ οὓσ ἅπαντεσ ἴσασι καὶ οὓσ θαυμάζουσιν, οὗτοι δὲ εἴσονταί σε αὐλητὴν εὐδόκιμον ὄντα, τί σοι δεῖ τῶν πολλῶν, οἵ γε πάντωσ ἀκολουθήσουσι τοῖσ ἄμεινον κρῖναι δυναμένοισ; (Lucian, Harmonides 5:6)

Synonyms

  1. better

  2. better

Related

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

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