μεγίστη (megiste)

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

Found 304 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.1.2: κίνησις γὰρ αὕτη μεγίστη δὴ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἐγένετο καὶ μέρει τινὶ τῶν βαρβάρων, ὡς δὲ εἰπεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀνθρώπων.

Strabo, Geography 14.3.7: … όντι πεζῇ σταδίους εἴκοσι τὰ Λίμυρα πολίχνη. μεταξὺ δʼ ἐν τῷ λεχθέντι παράπλῳ νησία πολλὰ καὶ λιμένες, ὧν καὶ Μεγίστη νῆσος καὶ πόλις ὁμώνυμος, καὶ ἡ Κισθήνη. ἐν δὲ τῇ μεσογαίᾳ χωρία Φελλὸς καὶ Ἀντίφελλος καὶ ἡ Χίμαιρα, ἧς ἐμνή …

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume II 7.27.5: ἠὲ πρὸς Εὐρυπύλην τετραμμένος, ἠὲ Μεγιστῆ,

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.