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πλεῖστα (pleista)

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

Found 889 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.471: εὖτε γὰρ οὖν ὡς πλεῖστα κάμοι καὶ πλεῖστα μογήσαι,

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.7.47: … μὰς δεδωκὼς τοῖς βουλομένοις καθιππάζεσθαι φιλοσοφίας· ἔν τισι δὲ καὶ πομπικὸς καὶ ἀπολαῦσαι τύφου δυνάμενος. πλεῖστά τε καταλέλοιπεν ὑπομνήματα, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀποφθέγματα χρειώδη πραγματείαν περιέχοντα. οἷον ὀνειδιζόμενος ἐπὶ τῷ μὴ …

Pindar, Olympian 11.1: ἔστιν ἀνθρώποις ἀνέμων ὅτε πλείστα

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.