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περισσόν (perisson)

περισσόν is an Ancient Greek form of περισσός, meaning “extraordinary; superfluous, excessive”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 65 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.627: νῦν δὲ περισσὸν δεῖμα καὶ ἀτλήτους μελεδῶνας

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.11: τῶνδέ γε ὧν ἁμὲς νῦν ὧδε λέγομες ἀλλʼ ἀεὶ τάδʼ ἦν . . . αἰ πὸτ ἀριθμόν τις περισσόν, αἰ δὲ λῇς, πὸτ ἄρτιον, ποτθέμειν λῇ ψᾶφον ἢ καὶ τᾶν ὑπαρχουσᾶν λαβεῖν, ἦ δοκεῖ κά τοί γʼ ἔθʼ ωὑτὸς εἶμεν;—οὐ …

All forms of περισσός (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.