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"accusative",
"masculine",
"plural"
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"accusative",
"neuter",
"plural"
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"masculine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
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"singular",
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"neuter",
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"form": "πλεῖστοι",
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"masculine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
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"plural",
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},
{
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"roman": "pleîston",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"adverbial",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"superlative"
]
}
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"2": "πλείστη",
"adv": "πλεῖστον",
"deg": "super"
},
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}
],
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"lang_code": "grc",
"pos": "adj",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "in large quantity, number",
"roman": "pámpleistos",
"word": "πᾰ́μπλειστος"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "mostly, very often",
"roman": "pleistákis",
"tags": [
"adverb"
],
"word": "πλειστᾰ́κις"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "holding widest sway",
"roman": "pleístarkhos",
"word": "πλείσταρχος"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "from most or many places",
"roman": "pleistakhóthen",
"tags": [
"adverb"
],
"word": "πλειστᾰχόθεν"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "manifold, all the whole",
"roman": "pleistḗrēs",
"word": "πλειστήρης"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "raise the price",
"roman": "pleistēriázō",
"word": "πλειστηριᾰ́ζω"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "increase of price",
"roman": "Hellenistic Koine",
"word": "πλειστηριᾰσμός"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "accuse as chief cause",
"roman": "pleistērízomai",
"word": "πλειστηρῐ́ζομαι"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "throw highest at dice",
"roman": "pleistoboléō",
"word": "πλειστοβολέω"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "dice-playing",
"roman": "pleistobolínda",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "πλειστοβολίνδα"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "throwing high",
"roman": "pleistóbolos",
"word": "πλειστόβολος"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "throwing the most",
"roman": "pleistobólos",
"word": "πλειστοβόλος"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "be dominant, prevail",
"roman": "pleistodunaméō",
"word": "πλειστοδυναμέω"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "bearing most",
"roman": "pleistophóros",
"word": "πλειστοφόρος"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "produce many offsprings",
"roman": "pleistogonéō",
"word": "πλειστογονέω"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "in various ways",
"roman": "pleistológōs",
"tags": [
"adverb"
],
"word": "πλειστολόγως"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "small birthwort, Aristolochia Plistolochia",
"roman": "pleistolókheia",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "πλειστολόχειᾰ"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "crowded with people",
"roman": "pleistómbrotos",
"word": "πλειστόμβροτος"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "victor in many contests",
"roman": "pleistonī́kēs",
"word": "πλειστονῑ́κης"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "the river Plistus",
"roman": "Pleistós",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Πλειστός"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "producing most offspring",
"roman": "pleistotókos",
"word": "πλειστοτόκος"
}
],
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"examples": [
{
"text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.616"
},
{
"text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.377"
},
{
"text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.697"
},
{
"text": "750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Fr. 33.1"
},
{
"text": "409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 478"
},
{
"text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 342A"
},
{
"text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 7.1.23"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.220"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.126"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.36"
}
],
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{
"examples": [
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.90"
},
{
"text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 718A"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.5"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.3"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.34"
},
{
"text": "423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 408"
}
],
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"the greatest number, the greatest part of.."
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"id": "en-πλεῖστος-grc-adj-I3xrCInk",
"links": [
[
"most",
"most"
],
[
"οἱ πολλοί",
"οἱ πολλοί#Ancient Greek"
]
],
"qualifier": "extent; strength",
"raw_glosses": [
"(of number, also of size, extent, strength, etc.) most, very much",
"(with the article, like οἱ πολλοί) the greatest number, the greatest part of.."
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"raw_tags": [
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"of number",
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],
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.287"
},
{
"text": "750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 231"
},
{
"text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.2.12"
},
{
"text": "409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 631"
},
{
"text": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 743"
},
{
"text": "438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 790"
},
{
"text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.97"
},
{
"text": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 720"
},
{
"text": "390 BCE, Plato, Hippias Major 281B"
}
],
"glosses": [
"most"
],
"id": "en-πλεῖστος-grc-adj-JOqRPv2i",
"links": [
[
"μάλιστα",
"μάλιστα#Ancient Greek"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(adverbial, like μάλιστα) most"
],
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 260"
},
{
"text": "366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Critias 118C"
},
{
"text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 563A.31"
},
{
"text": "129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 17.855"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 6.1.10"
}
],
"glosses": [
"most",
"for the most part"
],
"id": "en-πλεῖστος-grc-adj-aUFEM8N0",
"links": [
[
"μάλιστα",
"μάλιστα#Ancient Greek"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(adverbial, like μάλιστα) most",
"(with the article) for the most part"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with the article"
],
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.115"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.11"
}
],
"glosses": [
"furthest off"
],
"id": "en-πλεῖστος-grc-adj-MCf3Gwop",
"links": [
[
"διά",
"διά#Ancient Greek"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with prepositions)",
"(διά) furthest off"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with prepositions"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 739"
}
],
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"most"
],
"id": "en-πλεῖστος-grc-adj-JOqRPv2i1",
"links": [
[
"εἰς",
"εἰς#Ancient Greek"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with prepositions)",
"(εἰς) most"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with prepositions"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
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"Entry maintenance"
],
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{
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ιστος",
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.127"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.138"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.14"
},
{
"text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 720D"
}
],
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"over the greatest distance, to the greatest extent"
],
"id": "en-πλεῖστος-grc-adj-2pb9r8fI",
"links": [
[
"ἐπί",
"ἐπί#Ancient Greek"
]
],
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"(with prepositions)",
"(ἐπί) over the greatest distance, to the greatest extent"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with prepositions"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/plêːs.tos/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈplis.tos/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈplis.tos/"
},
{
"ipa": "/plêːs.tos/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈplis.tos/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈplis.tos/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈplis.tos/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈplis.tos/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
}
],
"word": "πλεῖστος"
}
{
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"feminine",
"masculine",
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"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter"
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"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"english": "in large quantity, number",
"roman": "pámpleistos",
"word": "πᾰ́μπλειστος"
},
{
"english": "mostly, very often",
"roman": "pleistákis",
"tags": [
"adverb"
],
"word": "πλειστᾰ́κις"
},
{
"english": "holding widest sway",
"roman": "pleístarkhos",
"word": "πλείσταρχος"
},
{
"english": "from most or many places",
"roman": "pleistakhóthen",
"tags": [
"adverb"
],
"word": "πλειστᾰχόθεν"
},
{
"english": "manifold, all the whole",
"roman": "pleistḗrēs",
"word": "πλειστήρης"
},
{
"english": "raise the price",
"roman": "pleistēriázō",
"word": "πλειστηριᾰ́ζω"
},
{
"english": "increase of price",
"roman": "Hellenistic Koine",
"word": "πλειστηριᾰσμός"
},
{
"english": "accuse as chief cause",
"roman": "pleistērízomai",
"word": "πλειστηρῐ́ζομαι"
},
{
"english": "throw highest at dice",
"roman": "pleistoboléō",
"word": "πλειστοβολέω"
},
{
"english": "dice-playing",
"roman": "pleistobolínda",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "πλειστοβολίνδα"
},
{
"english": "throwing high",
"roman": "pleistóbolos",
"word": "πλειστόβολος"
},
{
"english": "throwing the most",
"roman": "pleistobólos",
"word": "πλειστοβόλος"
},
{
"english": "be dominant, prevail",
"roman": "pleistodunaméō",
"word": "πλειστοδυναμέω"
},
{
"english": "bearing most",
"roman": "pleistophóros",
"word": "πλειστοφόρος"
},
{
"english": "produce many offsprings",
"roman": "pleistogonéō",
"word": "πλειστογονέω"
},
{
"english": "in various ways",
"roman": "pleistológōs",
"tags": [
"adverb"
],
"word": "πλειστολόγως"
},
{
"english": "small birthwort, Aristolochia Plistolochia",
"roman": "pleistolókheia",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "πλειστολόχειᾰ"
},
{
"english": "crowded with people",
"roman": "pleistómbrotos",
"word": "πλειστόμβροτος"
},
{
"english": "victor in many contests",
"roman": "pleistonī́kēs",
"word": "πλειστονῑ́κης"
},
{
"english": "the river Plistus",
"roman": "Pleistós",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Πλειστός"
},
{
"english": "producing most offspring",
"roman": "pleistotókos",
"word": "πλειστοτόκος"
}
],
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"examples": [
{
"text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.616"
},
{
"text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.377"
},
{
"text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.697"
},
{
"text": "750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Fr. 33.1"
},
{
"text": "409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 478"
},
{
"text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 342A"
},
{
"text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 7.1.23"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.220"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.126"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.36"
}
],
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"of size"
],
"tags": [
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"usually"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.90"
},
{
"text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 718A"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.5"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.3"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.34"
},
{
"text": "423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 408"
}
],
"glosses": [
"most, very much",
"the greatest number, the greatest part of.."
],
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[
"most",
"most"
],
[
"οἱ πολλοί",
"οἱ πολλοί#Ancient Greek"
]
],
"qualifier": "extent; strength",
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"(of number, also of size, extent, strength, etc.) most, very much",
"(with the article, like οἱ πολλοί) the greatest number, the greatest part of.."
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{
"examples": [
{
"text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.287"
},
{
"text": "750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 231"
},
{
"text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.2.12"
},
{
"text": "409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 631"
},
{
"text": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 743"
},
{
"text": "438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 790"
},
{
"text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.97"
},
{
"text": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 720"
},
{
"text": "390 BCE, Plato, Hippias Major 281B"
}
],
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"most"
],
"links": [
[
"μάλιστα",
"μάλιστα#Ancient Greek"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(adverbial, like μάλιστα) most"
],
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 260"
},
{
"text": "366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Critias 118C"
},
{
"text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 563A.31"
},
{
"text": "129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 17.855"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 6.1.10"
}
],
"glosses": [
"most",
"for the most part"
],
"links": [
[
"μάλιστα",
"μάλιστα#Ancient Greek"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(adverbial, like μάλιστα) most",
"(with the article) for the most part"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with the article"
],
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.115"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.11"
}
],
"glosses": [
"furthest off"
],
"links": [
[
"διά",
"διά#Ancient Greek"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with prepositions)",
"(διά) furthest off"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with prepositions"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 739"
}
],
"glosses": [
"most"
],
"links": [
[
"εἰς",
"εἰς#Ancient Greek"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with prepositions)",
"(εἰς) most"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with prepositions"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.127"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.138"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2"
},
{
"text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.14"
},
{
"text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 720D"
}
],
"glosses": [
"over the greatest distance, to the greatest extent"
],
"links": [
[
"ἐπί",
"ἐπί#Ancient Greek"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with prepositions)",
"(ἐπί) over the greatest distance, to the greatest extent"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with prepositions"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/plêːs.tos/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈplis.tos/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈplis.tos/"
},
{
"ipa": "/plêːs.tos/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈplis.tos/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈplis.tos/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈplis.tos/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈplis.tos/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
}
],
"word": "πλεῖστος"
}
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