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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

  • τοῦτο δὲ σημεῖον, ὅτι μὴ ὁ συμβουλευτικὸσ πολὺ βραχύτεροσ τοῦ μηκίστου [καὶ] ἀγωνιστικοῦ, οὕτωσ οὐ μόνον ταῖσ ἰδέαισ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῇ συμμετρίᾳ κεχωρίσθαι βούλεται τὰ ἀγωνίσματα ἀλλήλων, ὡσ ἐπὶ πλῆθοσ εἰπεῖν· (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 8:6)
  • ἀπὸ γὰρ τοῦ μηκίστου καὶ διαρκεστάτου δι’ ὀλιγίστου δὴ καιροῦ μεθηρμόσατο ἐπὶ <τὸ> βραχύτατον ὁμοῦ καὶ ὤκιστον, καὶ δολίχου τε ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τῇ αὐτῇ καὶ παραυτίκα σταδίου λαβὼν νίκην προσέθηκε δὲ διαύλου σφίσι τὴν τρίτην. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 13 6:4)

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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