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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

  • προσκατεσκεύασε δὲ τούτοισ ἄλλα τε πρὸσ τρυφὴν οἰκήματα καὶ δὴ καὶ στοὰσ μηκίστασ καὶ ἐν καλῷ τῶν βασιλείων κειμένασ, ἐν αἷσ λαμπρότατον οἶκον εἰσ ἑστίασιν καὶ συμπόσια χρυσοῦ περίπλεων· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 173:2)
  • ἐπεκόσμουν δὲ αὐτοὺσ καὶ οἱ ἀναβαίνοντεσ νεότητι μὲν πρῶτον ἀνθοῦντεσ ἐπιτερπεστάτῃ τὸ δὲ ὕψοσ ὄντεσ περίοπτοι καὶ πολὺ τῶν ἄλλων ὑπερέχοντεσ, μηκίστασ μὲν καθειμένοι χαίτασ ἐνδεδυμένοι δὲ χιτῶνασ τῆσ Τυρίασ πορφύρασ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 234:1)

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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