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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative μήκιστος μηκίστη μήκιστον
Genitive μηκίστου μηκίστης μηκίστου
Dative μηκίστῳ μηκίστῃ μηκίστῳ
Accusative μήκιστον μηκίστην μήκιστον
Vocative μήκιστε μηκίστη μήκιστον
DualN/A/V μηκίστω μηκίστᾱ μηκίστω
G/D μηκίστοιν μηκίσταιν μηκίστοιν
PluralNominative μήκιστοι μήκισται μήκιστα
Genitive μηκίστων μηκιστῶν μηκίστων
Dative μηκίστοις μηκίσταις μηκίστοις
Accusative μηκίστους μηκίστᾱς μήκιστα
Vocative μήκιστοι μήκισται μήκιστα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective μήκιστος μηκίστου μηκιστότερος μηκιστοτέρου μηκιστότατος μηκιστοτάτου
Adverb μηκίστως μηκιστότερον μηκιστότατα

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

  • ῥυθμοῖσ τε δακτύλοισ καὶ σπονδείοισ τοῖσ μηκίστοισ καὶ πλείστην ἔχουσι διάβασιν ἅπαντα σύγκειται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2029)

Synonyms

  1. greatest

Related

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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