αἱρετώτερον (hairetoteron)

αἱρετώτερον is an Ancient Greek form of αἱρετός, meaning “capturable; chosen”. It is the nominative singular neuter comparative adjective.

Found 55 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.7.49: ἔλεγε δὲ συνεχὲς ὅτι αἱρετώτερόν ἐστι τὴν ὥραν ἄλλῳ χαρίζεσθαι ἢ ἀλλοτρίας ἀποδρέπεσθαι· καὶ γὰρ εἰς σῶμα βλάπτεσθαι καὶ εἰς ψυχήν. διέβαλε δὲ …

Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae 31·2: … οις ἄγειν τὴν πόλιν, οἷς οὐ μόνον τὸ καλὸν καὶ τὸ σεμνὸν ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ κεχαρισμένον καὶ ἀγωγὸν ἔνεστι Κροισείων αἱρετώτερον στατήρων, οὐ γὰρ αὐθάδης οὐδʼ ἐπαχθὴς ὁ χρηστὸς οὐδʼ αὐθέκαστός ἐστιν ὁ σώφρων ἀνὴρ καὶ στείχει πολίταις ὄμμʼ …

All forms of αἱρετός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.