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ἐριστός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐριστός ἐριστή ἐριστόν

Structure: ἐριστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)ri/zw

Sense

  1. matter for contest

Examples

  • ἐν δὲ τῷ Εὐθυδήμῳ Εὐθύδημον καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ Διονυσόδωρον προπηλακίζων καὶ καλῶν ὀψιμαθεῖσ ἔτι τε ἐριστὰσ ὀνομάζων ὀνειδίζει αὐτοῖσ καὶ τὴν ἐκ Χίου τῆσ πατρίδοσ φυγήν, ἀφ’ ἧσ ἐν Θουρίοισ κατῳκίσθησαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 114 1:1)

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

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