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

  • "πλεῖαί τοι χαλκοῦ κλισίαι, πολλαὶ δὲ γυναῖκεσ εἰσὶν ἐνὶ κλισίῃσ ἐξαίρετοι, ἅσ τοι Ἀχαιοὶ πρωτίστῳ δίδομεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 3 1:9)
  • πρωτίστῳ δίδομεν, εὖτ’ ἂν πτολίεθρον ἕλωμεν , καὶ πάλιν ὁ Ἀχιλλεὺσ αἴ κέ ποθι Ζεὺσ δῷσι πόλιν Τροίην εὐτείχεον ἐξαλαπάξαι ὁ δὲ Θερσίτησ ὅν κεν ἐγὼ δήσασ ἀγάγω ἢ ἄλλοσ Ἀχαιῶν πάλιν τοῦ Ἀγαμέμνονοσ ἐν τῇ ἐπιπωλήσει τὸν Διομήδην λοιδορήσαντοσ ὁ μὲν οὐδὲν ἀντεῖπεν αἰδεσθεὶσ· (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 10 6:1)
  • πλεῖαί τοι χαλκοῦ κλισίαι, πολλαὶ δὲ γυναῖκεσ εἰσὶν ἐνὶ κλισίῃσ ἐξαίρετοι, ἅσ τοι Ἀχαιοὶ πρωτίστῳ δίδομεν εὖτ’ ἂν πτολίεθρον ἕλωμεν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 22:3)
  • Ἕκτορι δὲ πρωτίστῳ ἀνάλκιδα θυμὸν ἐνῆκεν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 52:7)

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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