Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • νῦν δ’ ἴθι, καὶ τήνδ’ ἧμιν, Ἑκηβόλε, δέξο θυηλήν, ἥν τοι τῆσδ’ ἐπίβαθρα χάριν προτεθείμεθα νηὸσ πρωτίστην· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 8:15)

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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