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μήκιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μήκιστος μήκιστη μήκιστον

Structure: μηκιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: irr. Sup. of makro/s (formed from mh=kos, as ai)/sxistos from ai)=sxos),

Sense

  1. tallest
  2. greatest
  3. longest, in the highest degree, in the long run, at last?
  4. farthest, as far as possible, as far, as possible

Examples

  • ἢν δὲ μὴ τουτέοισι ἐπανίῃ μηδὲν ἡ παραφορὴ, κουρῆσ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ χρέοσ, ἢν μὲν μήκισται εἰε͂ν αἱ κόμαι, τὰ πρώτιστα ἐσ ἥμισυ· εἰ δὲ βραχύτεραι , ἐν χρῷ· ἔπειτα μεσηγὺ ἀναλαβόντα τὴν δύναμιν, σικύην κατὰ τῆσ κορυφῆσ προσβάλλει ν ἠδὲ ἀφαιρέειν αἷμα· κούφη δὲ προτέρη ἐσ τὰ μετάφρενα κεκολλήσθω . (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 72)
  • "χειμερινὸσ ὄνειροσ, ὅτε μήκισταὶ εἰσιν αἱ νύκτεσ, ἢ τάχα που τριέσπεροσ, ὥσπερ ὁ Ἡρακλῆσ, καὶ αὐτόσ ἐστι. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 13:2)

Synonyms

  1. greatest

Related

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

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