βραχύτερον (brachyteron)

βραχύτερον is an Ancient Greek form of βραχύς, meaning “short, brief”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Defectu Oraculorum 2: … ου, καὶ τοῦτο ποιεῖσθαι τεκμήριον ἐκείνους τῆς τῶν ἐνιαυτῶν ἀνωμαλίας, τὸν ἕτερον τοῦ προάγοντος ἀεὶ τῷ χρόνῳ βραχύτερον ποιούσης εἰκὸς γὰρ ἐν ἐλάττονι χρόνῳ τὸ δαπανώμενον ἔλαττον εἶναι.

Hippocrates, De articulis 57: … ι, ἠδελφισμένος τοῖσι νῦν λεγομένοισιν. περὶ οὗ δὲ ὁ λόγος ἐστὶν, οὔτε ἐκτανύειν δύνανται, ὥσπερ ἤδη εἴρηται· βραχύτερόν τε τὸ σκέλος φαίνεται διὰ δισσὰς προφάσιας, ὅτι τε οὐκ ἐκτανύεται, ὅτι τε πρὸς τὴν σάρκα ὠλίσθηκε τὴν τοῦ πυγ …

All forms of βραχύς (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.