πλεῖστʼ (pleist)

πλεῖστʼ is an Ancient Greek form of πλεῖστος, meaning “most, greatest”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.41.1: ‘ξυνελών τε λέγω τήν τε πᾶσαν πόλιν τῆς Ἑλλάδος παίδευσιν εἶναι καὶ καθ’ ἕκαστον δοκεῖν ἄν μοι τὸν αὐτὸν ἄνδρα παρ’ ἡμῶν ἐπὶ πλεῖστ᾽ ἂν εἴδη καὶ μετὰ χαρίτων μάλιστ’ ἂν εὐτραπέλως τὸ σῶμα αὔταρκες παρέχεσθαι.

Euripides, Hecuba 620: ὦ πλεῖστʼ ἔχων κάλλιστά τʼ, εὐτεκνώτατε

Sophocles, Ichneutae 209: μὴ πλεῖστ[ον] ἔτι ς[]ν [] χρόνον.

All forms of πλεῖστος (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.