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κλεπτίστατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κλεπτίστατος κλεπτίστατη κλεπτίστατον

Structure: κλεπτιστατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Sup. adj. formed from kle/pths

Sense

  1. the most arrant thief

Declension

First/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

  • τῶν ἐμῶν γὰρ οἰκετῶν πιστότατον ἡγοῦμαί σε καὶ κλεπτίστατον. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 1:14)
  • "δι’ οὓσ Σωκράτησ μὲν ἀπέθανεν ὁ πρὸσ τοὺσ εἰσ τὰ δικαστήρια διακληρουμένουσ διαλεγόμενοσ περὶ τοῦ δικαίου κλεπτιστάτουσ ὄντασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 9127)

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

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