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καλλίστευμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλλίστευμα καλλίστευματος

Structure: καλλιστευματ (Stem)

Etym.: from kallisteu/w

Sense

  1. exceeding beauty
  2. the first-fruits of beauty or the most beautiful

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative καλλίστευμα καλλιστεύματε καλλιστεύματα
Genitive καλλιστεύματος καλλιστευμάτοιν καλλιστευμάτων
Dative καλλιστεύματι καλλιστευμάτοιν καλλιστεύμασιν*
Accusative καλλίστευμα καλλιστεύματε καλλιστεύματα
Vocative καλλίστευμα καλλιστεύματε καλλιστεύματα

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

  • πόλεοσ ἐκπροκριθεῖσ’ ἐμᾶσ καλλιστεύματα Λοξίᾳ Καδμείων ἔμολον γᾶν, κλεινῶν Ἀγηνοριδᾶν ὁμογενεῖσ ἐπὶ Λαί̈ου πεμφθεῖσ’ ἐνθάδε πύργουσ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, antistrophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. exceeding beauty

  2. the first-fruits of beauty or the most beautiful

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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