μαλακώτερον (malakoteron)

μαλακώτερον is an Ancient Greek form of μαλακός, meaning “soft, gentle”. It is the accusative singular neuter comparative adjective.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.1.19: ἐδόκει γάρ πως μαλακώτερον φέρειν τὴν νόσον ὑπὸ φιλοζωίας. καὶ ἔστιν ἡμῶν εἰς αὐτὸν οὕτως ἔχον· τὸν βίον ἦσθα κύων, Ἀντίσθενες, ὧδε πεφυ …

Plutarch, Cicero 19.4: … ἄγαν ἐμφορεῖσθαι καὶ πικρῶς ἐπεμβαίνειν ἀνδράσι γένει τε πρώτοις καὶ φίλους δυνατοὺς ἐν τῇ πόλει κεκτημένοις· μαλακώτερόν τε χρησάμενος ὠρρώδει τὸν ἀπʼ αὐτῶν κίνδυνον.

All forms of μαλακός (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.