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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

  • "καὶ μήποτε πρώτιστοι καὶ ἐγένοντο καὶ ἐτράφησαν ἐν Σάμῳ καὶ ἐντεῦθεν εἰσ τοὺσ ἔξω τόπουσ διεδόθησαν, ὡσ καὶ οἱ ἀλεκτρυόνεσ ἐν τῇ Περσίδι καὶ αἱ καλούμεναι μελεαγρίδεσ ἐν τῇ Αἰτωλίᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 70 3:5)

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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