κρεῖσσον (kreisson)

κρεῖσσον is an Ancient Greek form of κρείσσων, meaning “stronger, better”. It is the nominative singular neuter comparative adjective.

Found 128 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.50.1: γενόμενον γὰρ κρεῖσσον λόγου τὸ εἶδος τῆς νόσου τά τε ἄλλα χαλεπωτέρως ἢ κατὰ τὴν ἀνθρωπείαν φύσιν προσέπιπτεν ἑκάστῳ καὶ ἐν τῷδε ἐδ …

Euripides, Hecuba 1107: συγγνώσθʼ, ὅταν τις κρείσσονʼ ἢ φέρειν κακὰ

Euripides, The Trojan Women 637: τοῦ ζῆν δὲ λυπρῶς κρεῖσσόν ἐστι κατθανεῖν.

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.