μάλιστʼ (malist)

μάλιστʼ is an Ancient Greek form of μάλιστα, meaning “most, especially, very much”. It is the adverb.

It can also be a form of μάλα, “very, exceedingly, much”.

Found 461 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.22.1: … υσα καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοθέν ποθεν ἐμοὶ ἀπαγγέλλουσιν· ὡς δ’ ἂν ἐδόκουν ἐμοὶ ἕκαστοι περὶ τῶν αἰεὶ παρόντων τὰ δέοντα μάλιστ’ εἰπεῖν, ἐχομένῳ ὅτι ἐγγύτατα τῆς ξυμπάσης γνώμης τῶν ἀληθῶς λεχθέντων, οὕτως εἴρηται.

Euripides, Heracleidae 117: μάλιστʼ ἂν εἴη· τἄλλα δʼ εἴρηται μάτην.

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 85.4: παῖσι;’ ‘Μάλιστʼ,’ [ἀμειβόμαν ἔγω. ‘Ἔρμας]

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.