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νεώτατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεώτατος νεώτατη νεώτατον

Structure: νεωτατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Sup. of ne/os

Sense

  1. youngest
  2. most recent

Examples

  • τῷ δὲ νεωτάτῳ ἐθέμην ὄνομα Καλλίστρατον, ὃ ἦν ὄνομα τῷ πατρὶ τῆσ ἐμῆσ μητρόσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 114:4)
  • καὶ αὐτὸν ἐκπεσόντα Αἰγύπτου διὰ δέοσ, ὅτι νεωτάτῳ παιδὶ ὁ Πτολεμαῖοσ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐπενόει δοῦναι, ὁ Σέλευκοσ οἱᾶ φίλου παῖδα ἀτυχοῦντα ὑπεδέξατο, καὶ ἔφερβε καὶ ἐπήγετο πάντῃ φονέα ἑαυτοῦ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 10 4:8)
  • Φερώρᾳ δὲ τῷ νεωτάτῳ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἐπέστελλεν τῆσ τε ἀγορᾶσ αὐτοῖσ ποιεῖσθαι πρόνοιαν καὶ τειχίζειν Ἀλεξάνδρειον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 445:2)
  • τοὺσ μὲν δὴ καιόμενον τὸν χρυσὸν ἀπώσασθαι, τρίτῳ δὲ τῷ νεωτάτῳ ἐπελθόντι κατασβῆναι, καὶ μιν ἐκεῖνον κομίσαι ἐσ ἑωυτοῦ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 5 5:2)
  • καὶ τοὺσ πρεσβυτέρουσ ἀδελφεοὺσ πρὸσ ταῦτα συγγνόντασ τὴν βασιληίην πᾶσαν παραδοῦναι τῷ νεωτάτῳ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 5 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. most recent

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

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