βέλτιστον (beltiston)

βέλτιστον is an Ancient Greek form of βέλτιστος, meaning “best”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 205 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.67: καὶ σὲ φημὶ πάντων τυράννων εἶναι βέλτιστον. ἐπανήκειν δέ μοι Ἀθήναζε οὐ καλῶς ἔχον ὁρῶ, μή μέ τις μέμψηται, εἰ διαθεὶς Ἀθηναίοις ἰσοπολιτείαν, καὶ παρὸν …

Aristophanes, Frogs 322: βέλτιστόν ἐσθʼ, ἕως ἂν εἰδῶμεν σαφῶς.

All forms of βέλτιστος (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.