δικαιότατον (dikaiotaton)

δικαιότατον is an Ancient Greek form of δίκαιος, meaning “just, right, fair”. It is the accusative singular masculine superlative adjective.

Found 80 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Solon 14.3: … ῶν διὰ μέσου πολιτῶν, τὴν ὑπὸ λόγου καὶ νόμου μεταβολὴν ὁρῶντες ἐργώδη καὶ χαλεπὴν οὖσαν, οὐκ ἔφευγον ἕνα τὸν δικαιότατον καὶ φρονιμώτατον ἐπιστῆσαι τοῖς πράγμασιν.

Isaeus, On the Estate of Nicostratus 22: … ς χρή, ὦ ἄνδρες, πρῶτον μὲν τὰς διαθήκας σκοπεῖν, εἰ δοκοῦσι γενέσθαι· τοῦτο γὰρ οἵ τε νόμοι 〈ὑφ〉ηγοῦνται καὶ δικαιότατόν ἐστι.

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi mortuorum 16.1: … ούτων, δίκαιον, ἐμὲ μὲν τεθνάναι τριάκοντα ἔτη γεγονότα, τὸν δὲ ὑπὲρ τὰ ἐνενήκοντα γέροντα Θούκριτον ζῆν ἔτι; Δικαιότατον μὲν οὖν, ὦ Τερψίων, εἴ γε ὁ μὲν ζῇ μηδένα εὐχόμενος ἀποθανεῖν τῶν φίλων, σὺ δὲ παρὰ πάντα τὸν χρόνον ἐπεβούλε …

All forms of δίκαιος (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.