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ἀνώτατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνώτατος ἀνώτατη ἀνώτατον

Structure: ἀνωτατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. topmost

Examples

  • καίτοι μὰ τὸν Δία καὶ τοὺσ θεοὺσ οὐδ’ εἰ τὴν ἀνωτάτην χάριν ὑμῖν ἕξειν ἔμελλον οἱ δοκοῦντεσ νῦν τῶν εἰκόνων τυγχάνειν καὶ σφόδρα ἐπαινέσειντὸν δῆμον, οὐδ’ οὕτωσ ἐχρῆν αὐτὸ γίγνεσθαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 41:1)
  • ἡ δ’ ἀνωτάτω σῦριγξ οὖσα πεντήκοντα πηχῶν τὸ ὕψοσ εἶχεν ἐπ’ αὐτῇ τοῦ παραδείσου τὴν ἀνωτάτην ἐπιφάνειαν συνεξισουμένην τῷ περιβόλῳ τῶν ἐπάλξεων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 10 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. topmost

Related

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

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