πιθανώτερον (pithanoteron)

πιθανώτερον is an Ancient Greek form of πιθανός, meaning “persuasive”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 16.7: ὀπίμια δὲ τὰ σκῦλα, φησὶ Βάρρων, καθότι καὶ τὴν περιουσίαν ὄπεμ λέγουσι. πιθανώτερον δʼ ἄν τις εἴποι διὰ τὴν πρᾶξιν· ὄπους γὰρ ὀνομάζεται τὸ ἔργον, αὐτουργῷ δʼ ἀριστείας στρατηγῷ, στρατηγὸν ἀνελ …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.35.3: … ηνικῶν πολλὰ τὸ παραπλήσιον πέπονθεν ὀνομάτων. πλὴν εἴτε ὡς Ἀντίοχός φησιν ἐπʼ ἀνδρὸς ἡγεμόνος, ὅπερ ἴσως καὶ πιθανώτερόν ἐστιν, εἴθʼ ὡς Ἑλλάνικος οἴεται ἐπὶ τοῦ ταύρου τὴν ὀνομασίαν ταύτην ἔσχεν, ἐκεῖνό γε ἐξ ἀμφοῖν δῆλον, ὅτι κατ …

All forms of πιθανός (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.