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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

  • ὄροφοσ δὲ αὐτοῖσ ἐπεβέβλητο κέδρου καὶ τοῖσ μὲν οἴκοισ ἴδιοσ ἦν οὗτοσ ἑκάστῳ πρὸσ τοὺσ πλησίον οὐ συνάπτων, τοῖσ δ’ ἄλλοισ ὑπῆρχεν ἡ στέγη κοινὴ δι’ ἀλλήλων δεδομημένη μηκίσταισ δοκοῖσ καὶ διηκούσαισ ἁπάντων, ὡσ τοὺσ μέσουσ τοίχουσ ὑπὸ τῶν αὐτῶν συγκρατουμένουσ ξύλων ἐρρωμενεστέρουσ διὰ τοῦτο γίνεσθαι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 86:1)

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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