Hellas Alive Dictionary - υπερδεξιος

Ancient Greek Dictionary

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερδέξιος ὑπερδέξιον

Structure: ὑπερδεξι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

lying above one on the right hand, lying above, higher, above, commanding from above
having the advantage in, victorious over

First/Second declension

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ὑπερδέξιος ὑπερδεξίου	ὑπερδεξιότερος ὑπερδεξιοτέρου	ὑπερδεξιότατος ὑπερδεξιοτάτου
Adverb	ὑπερδεξίως	ὑπερδεξιότερον	ὑπερδεξιότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

ἔπειτα ἵστασθαι τὸν ἔχοντα αὐτὴν ἐν χωρίῳ περιφανεῖ καὶ ὑπερδεξίῳ, καὶ φθάσαντι μὲν τῷ λαγῷ καὶ προλαβόντι οὐχ ὁρῶσαν μὴ ἐφιέναι· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 25 4:1)
ὁπότε τούτου δέοι, ἢ ἐπὶ κέρωσ ἑκατέρου, ἢ εἰ πρόβλημα εἰή τοῦ ἑτέρου κέρωσ ποταμὸσ ἢ τάφροσ ἢ θάλασσα, ἐπὶ τοῦ ἑτέρου μόνον ἐν ὑπερδεξίῳ χωρίῳ τοῦ ἀποκρούεσθαι τῶν πολεμίων τὴν ταύτῃ ἔφοδον, ἢ ἐσ κώλυσιν κυκλώσεωσ· (Arrian, chapter 9 3:1)
θαυμάζειν δ’ ἔστι τῶν ὑποβαλόντων οὕτωσ ἀλόγωσ τὸ κτίσμα ὀρθίῳ καὶ ὑπερδεξίῳ κρημνῷ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 2 44:5)

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

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