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μείζονές (meizones)

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

Found 74 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Suppliants 1102: γέροντι θυγατρός· ἀρσένων δὲ μείζονες

Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos 39: … αμίδος ἐκ τριγώνων συνισταμένης τὰς πλευρὰς κατὰ τὴν συναφὴν ἐγκεκλιμένας ἀνίσους μὲν εἶναι, μὴ ὑπερέχον δʼ ᾗ μείζονές εἰσιν οὕτως ἐτήρει τὰς ἐννοίας. εἰ γὰρ ἔστι τι μεῖζον καὶ μὴ ὑπερέχον, ἔσται τι μικρότερον καὶ μὴ ἐλλεῖπον· ὥ …

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.