Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀμείνων

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμείνων

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

Sense

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

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ τύχῃ γε καὶ φύσει γενέσεωσ ἀμείνονι τὰ πλεῖστα τῶν ἀλόγων κέχρηται. (Plutarch, De fortuna, chapter, section 3 6:1)
  • Ζεὺσ γὰρ οἱ νεμέσασχ’, ὅτ’ ἀμείνονι φωτὶ μάχοιτο· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 9 11:4)
  • ἐμὲ μὲν γὰρ οὐδὲν ἂν βλάψειεν οὔτε Μέλητοσ οὔτε Ἄνυτοσ ‐ οὐδὲ γὰρ ἂν δύναιτο ‐ οὐ γὰρ οἰόμαι θεμιτὸν εἶναι ἀμείνονι ἀνδρὶ ὑπὸ χείρονοσ βλάπτεσθαι. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 139:6)
  • κατ’ ἀρετὴν γάρ, καὶ τῷ ἀμείνονι πλέον ἀγαθόν, καὶ τὸ ἁρμόζον ἑκάστῳ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 114:5)
  • τῇ ἀμείνονι ἄρα ψυχῇ ἵππου τὰ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἔργα ταύτησ τὰ πονηρὰ ἑκουσίωσ ἂν ποιοῖ, τῇ δὲ τῆσ πονηρᾶσ ἀκουσίωσ; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 73:7)

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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