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κρείττονι (kreittoni)

κρείττονι is an Ancient Greek form of κρείσσων, meaning “stronger, better”. It is the dative singular adjective.

Found 59 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 25.3: … οῦ Ῥωμύλου γενέσθαι, τέχνην τε μετὰ τόλμης πᾶσαν ἐπιδειξαμένου, ῥώμῃ τε καὶ ποδωκείᾳ πολὺ δόξαντος ἀνθρωπίνης κρείττονι κεχρῆσθαι, πάντες ὁμολογοῦσι, τὸ δʼ ὑπʼ ἐνίων λεγόμενον κομιδῇ μυθῶδές ἐστι, μᾶλλον δʼ ὅλως ἄπιστον, ὅτι μυρί …

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.