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ἔχθιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔχθιστος ἔχθιστη ἔχθιστον

Structure: ἐχθιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. most hated, most hateful
  2. most hostile, bitterest enemies

Examples

  • καὶ παρέδωκασ ἡμᾶσ εἰσ χεῖρασ ἐχθρῶν ἀνόμων, ἐχθίστων ἀποστατῶν, καὶ βασιλεῖ ἀδίκῳ καὶ πονηροτάτῳ παρὰ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 3:30)
  • ὁ δὲ στρατηγὸσ ὁ σοφὸσ ἐχθίστων ὕπερ τὰ φίλτατ’ ὤλεσ’, ἡδονὰσ τὰσ οἴκοθεν τέκνων ἀδελφῷ δοὺσ γυναικὸσ οὕνεκα, καὶ ταῦθ’ ἑκούσησ κοὐ βίᾳ λελῃσμένησ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 1:18)
  • ἔλθοισ τῶνδε πόνων ἐμοὶ τᾷ μελέᾳ λυτήρ, ὦ Ζεῦ Ζεῦ, πατρί θ’ αἱμάτων ἐχθίστων ἐπίκουροσ, Ἄρ‐ γει κέλσασ πόδ’ ἀλάταν. (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 15)
  • μέλεοσ ἐχθίστων θεόθεν ἐργμάτων, τάλασ. (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 19)
  • μετὰ γὰρ Θηβαίων τῶν ἡμῖν ἐχθίστων ἐπὶ δουλείᾳ τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ ἥκετε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 36 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. most hated

  2. most hostile

Related

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

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