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ἀνώτατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνώτατος ἀνώτατη ἀνώτατον

Structure: ἀνωτατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

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Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ἀνώτατος ἀνώτάτη ἀνώτατον
Genitive ἀνωτάτου ἀνώτάτης ἀνωτάτου
Dative ἀνωτάτῳ ἀνώτάτῃ ἀνωτάτῳ
Accusative ἀνώτατον ἀνώτάτην ἀνώτατον
Vocative ἀνώτατε ἀνώτάτη ἀνώτατον
DualN/A/V ἀνωτάτω ἀνώτάτᾱ ἀνωτάτω
G/D ἀνωτάτοιν ἀνώτάταιν ἀνωτάτοιν
PluralNominative ἀνώτατοι ἀνώ́ταται ἀνώτατα
Genitive ἀνωτάτων ἀνώτατῶν ἀνωτάτων
Dative ἀνωτάτοις ἀνώτάταις ἀνωτάτοις
Accusative ἀνωτάτους ἀνώτάτᾱς ἀνώτατα
Vocative ἀνώτατοι ἀνώ́ταται ἀνώτατα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἀνώτατος ἀνωτάτου ἀνωτατότερος ἀνωτατοτέρου ἀνωτατότατος ἀνωτατοτάτου
Adverb ἀνωτάτως ἀνωτατότερον ἀνωτατότατα

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

  • "ἀνώτατον δὲ καὶ μουσικώτατον τὸ παντὶ τὸ προσῆκον μέτρον ἐπιτιθέναι. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 44 1:4)
  • τεττάρων στοιχείων, μόνον δὲ τὸ ἀνώτατον πῦρ κωνοειδέσ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, 2:1)
  • Δίπλοον δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ ὀστέον κατὰ μέσην τὴν κεφαλήν‧ σκληρότατον δὲ καὶ πυκνότατον αὐτέου πέφυκεν τό τε ἀνώτατον, ᾗ ἡ ὁμοχροίη τοῦ ὀστέου ἡ ὑπὸ τῇ σαρκὶ, καὶ τὸ κατώτατον τὸ πρὸσ τῇ μήνιγγι, ᾗ ἡ ὁμοχροίη τοῦ ὀστέου ἡ κάτω‧ ἀποχωρέον δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνωτάτου ὀστέου καὶ τοῦ κατωτάτου, ἀπὸ τῶν σκληροτάτων καὶ πυκνοτάτων ἐπὶ τὸ μαλθακώτερον καὶ ἧσσον πυκνὸν καὶ ἐπικοιλότερον ἐσ τὴν διπλόην αἰεί. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 1.6)

Synonyms

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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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