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βέλτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βέλτερος βέλτερᾱ βέλτερον

Structure: βελτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. from same Root as bou/lomai.

Sense

  1. better, more excellent, it is better

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative βέλτερος βέλτέρᾱ βέλτερον
Genitive βελτέρου βέλτέρᾱς βελτέρου
Dative βελτέρῳ βέλτέρᾱͅ βελτέρῳ
Accusative βέλτερον βέλτέρᾱν βέλτερον
Vocative βέλτερε βέλτέρᾱ βέλτερον
DualN/A/V βελτέρω βέλτέρᾱ βελτέρω
G/D βελτέροιν βέλτέραιν βελτέροιν
PluralNominative βέλτεροι βέ́λτεραι βέλτερα
Genitive βελτέρων βέλτερῶν βελτέρων
Dative βελτέροις βέλτέραις βελτέροις
Accusative βελτέρους βέλτέρᾱς βέλτερα
Vocative βέλτεροι βέ́λτεραι βέλτερα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective βέλτερος βελτέρου βελτερώτερος βελτερωτέρου βελτερώτατος βελτερωτάτου
Adverb βελτέρως βελτερώτερον βελτερώτατα

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

  • "σὺ δέ μοι ἀσφαλέωσ ἔχειν τόδε γάρ μοι χρυσοῦ βέλτερον, τόδε μοι ψυχῆσ ἐμῆσ ἀντάξιον. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 20:9)
  • οἴκοι βέλτερον εἶναι, ἐπεὶ βλαβερὸν τὸ θύρηφιν. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 40:12)
  • τί γὰρ ὄψον γένοιτ’ ἂν ἀνδρὶ τοῦδε βέλτερον; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 17 7:1)
  • τὸν φθίμενον γὰρ προλέγω βέλτερα τῶνδε πράσσειν· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • τὸ βέλτερον κακοῦ καὶ τὸ δίμοιρον αἰνῶ, καὶ δίκᾳ δίκασ ἕπε‐ σθαι, ξὺν εὐχαῖσ ἐμαῖσ, λυτηρίοισ μαχαναῖσ θεοῦ πάρα. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 42)
  • ὃσ δὲ μιῇ γλώσσῃ δίχ’ ἔχει νόον, οὗτοσ ἑταῖροσ δεινόσ, Κύρν’, ἐχθρὸσ βέλτεροσ ἢ φίλοσ ὤν. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-138943)
  • Πολλοῖσ ἀχρήστοισι θεὸσ διδοῖ ἀνδράσιν ὄλβον, ὅστισ μήτ’ αὐτῷ βέλτεροσ οὐδὲν ἐὼν μήτε φίλοισ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389474)

Synonyms

  1. better

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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