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μέζων (mezon)

μέζων is an Ancient Greek form of μέγας, meaning “big, great, large”. It is the nominative singular masculine comparative adjective.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Lucian of Samosata, De Syria dea 26: … ὐνάζωμαι. τάδε εἶπέν τε ἅμα καὶ ἐποίεεν· καὶ οἱ μὲν αὐτίκα ἐς φόνον ἤγοντο, τῷ δὲ τὰ δῶρα ἐδέδοτο καὶ ἡ φιλίη μέζων ἐγεγόνεεν. ἐδόκεεν δὲ οὐδεὶς ἔτι Ἀσσυρίων Κομβάβῳ σοφίην καὶ εὐδαιμονίην εἴκελος. μετὰ δὲ αἰτησάμενος ἐκτελέσ …

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.