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ἀριστεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀριστεύς

Structure: ἀριστευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)/ristos

Sense

  1. the best man, the best or noblest, chiefs, princes

Declension

Third declension

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

  • ἆρ’ ὧδ’ ἄριστοσ ἐξ ἀριστέοιν δυοῖν βλαστὼν ἂν αἰσχύνοιμι τοὺσ πρὸσ αἵματοσ, οὓσ νῦν σὺ τοιοῖσδ’ ἐν πόνοισι κειμένουσ ὠθεῖσ ἀθάπτουσ, οὐδ’ ἐπαισχύνει λέγων; (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 2:8)

Related

Similar forms

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

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