μέγισται (megistai)

μέγισται is an Ancient Greek form of μέγας, meaning “big, great, large”. It is the nominative plural feminine superlative adjective.

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.99.1: αἰτίαι δὲ ἄλλαι τε ἦσαν τῶν ἀποστάσεων καὶ μέγισται αἱ τῶν φόρων καὶ νεῶν ἔκδειαι καὶ λιποστράτιον εἴ τῳ ἐγένετο· οἱ γὰρ Ἀθηναῖοι ἀκριβῶς ἔπρασσον καὶ λυπηροὶ ἦσαν οὐκ εἰωθόσιν οὐδὲ βουλομένοις ταλαιπωρεῖν προσάγοντες τὰς ἀνάγκας.

Lucian of Samosata, Muscae Encomium 12: γίγνονται δὲ καὶ μέγισταί τινες μυῖαι, ἃς στρατιώτιδας οἱ πολλοὶ καλοῦσιν, οἱ δὲ κύνας, τραχύταται τὸν βόμβον καὶ τὴν πτῆσιν ὠκύταται, …

Hippocrates, De aere, aquis, locis 24·2: … πλεῖστον διάφοροι αὐταὶ ἑωυτῇσιν, ἐκεῖ καὶ τὰ εἴδεα καὶ τὰ ἤθεα καὶ τὰς φύσιας εὑρήσεις πλεῖστον διαφερούσας. Μέγισται μὲν οὖν εἰσιν αὗται τῆς φύσιος αἱ διαλλαγαί, ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ ἡ χώρη, ἐν ᾗ ἄν τις τρέφηται καὶ τὰ ὕδατα. εὑρήσει …

All forms of μέγας (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.