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κρέσσον (kresson)

κρέσσον is an Ancient Greek form of κρείσσων, meaning “stronger, better”. It is the vocative singular masculine adjective or nominative plural neuter adjective.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 8.83: κρέσσον μελπομένω τευ ἀκουέμεν ἢ μέλι λείχειν.

Pindar, Isthmean 4.34: καὶ κρέσσονʼ ἀνδρῶν χειρόνων

All forms of κρείσσων (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.