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πρώτιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρώτιστος πρώτιστη πρώτιστον

Structure: πρωτιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poet. Sup. of prw=tos

Sense

  1. the very first, first of the first, first of all

Examples

  • εἰνὰσ δ’ ἡ μέσση ἐπὶ δείελα λώιον ἦμαρ, πρωτίστη δ’ εἰνὰσ παναπήμων ἀνθρώποισιν· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 99:1)
  • ἡ μὲν οὖν πρωτίστη αἰτίη καχεξίη. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 7)
  • Τῆσ ἐπιληψίησ ὀλεθρίη μὲν ἡ πρωτίστη κατάπτωσισ, ἢν ὀξέωσ εἰσβάλλῃ ἡ νοῦσοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 204)

Synonyms

  1. the very first

Related

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

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