λώιον (loion)

λώιον is an Ancient Greek form of λωίων, meaning “better, more desirable”. It is the nominative singular neuter comparative adjective.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.527: λώιον, ἢ κακὸν οἶτον ἀφειδήσαντας ἑλέσθαι.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.4.80: … ἄττα γέρον, δοιός με καλεῖ γάμος· ἡ μία μὲν δὴ νύμφη καὶ πλούτῳ καὶ γενεῇ κατʼ ἐμέ· ἡ δʼ ἑτέρη προβέβηκε. τί λώϊον; εἰ δʼ ἄγε σύν μοι βούλευσον, ποτέρην εἰς ὑμέναιον ἄγω. εἶπεν· ὁ δὲ σκίπωνα, γεροντικὸν ὅπλον, ἀείρας, ἤνιδε, …

Hesiod, Works and Days 759: μηδʼ ἐναποψύχειν· τὸ γὰρ οὔ τοι λώιόν ἐστιν.

All forms of λωίων (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.