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ἄριστον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄριστον ἀρίστου

Structure: ἀριστ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: a in Epic, a in attic

Sense

  1. morning meal, breakfast (early usage, i.e. Homeric)
  2. lunch (later usage, replaced with ἀκράτισμα as word for breakfast)

Declension

Second 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

  • καὶ ἐξελέξατο ἑαυτῷ Δαυὶδ τὸν θάνατον. καὶ ἡμέραι θερισμοῦ πυρῶν, καὶ ἔδωκε Κύριοσ θάνατον ἐν Ἰσραὴλ ἀπὸ πρωί̈θεν ἕωσ ὥρασ ἀρίστου, καὶ ἤρξατο ἡ θραῦσισ ἐν τῷ λαῷ, καὶ ἀπέθανεν ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ ἀπὸ Δὰν καὶ ἕωσ Βηρσαβεὲ ἑβδομήκοντα χιλιάδεσ ἀνδρῶν. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 24:15)
  • καὶ εἶπαν ἕτεροσ τῷ ἑτέρῳ. πορευθῶμεν δὴ εἰσ οἶκον, ὅτι ἀρίστου ὥρα ἐστί. καὶ ἐξελθόντεσ διεχωρίσθησαν ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων, (Septuagint, Liber Susanna 1:13)
  • Φρυγῶν ἀρίστου πρίν ποθ’ Ἕκτοροσ δάμαρ, μή με στυγήσῃσ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 4:1)
  • λέξασ ἀρίστου παῖδα μὴ τρέφειν πατρὸσ . (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 4:25)
  • ὡσ ὑπὲρ τὴν ἀξίαν τὸ πένθοσ αἴρεσθ’, εἰ θανεῖν ὑμᾶσ χρεών, σὺ μὲν καθ’ Ἑλλάδ’ ἐκβαλὼν κόμπουσ κενούσ, ὡσ σύγγαμόσ σοι Ζεὺσ τέκ<νου τε κ>οινεών, σὺ δ’ ὡσ ἀρίστου φωτὸσ ἐκλήθησ δάμαρ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode7)

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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