πυκνότερον (pyknoteron)

πυκνότερον is an Ancient Greek form of πυκνός, meaning “thick, close, dense; wise”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of πυκνος, “close, compact; close, firm, solid”.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.61: … τοντος εἰπόντος, αὐτόθεν πρῴην ἄνθρωπος ἀπήγξατο, ἐγὼ οὖν, φησίν, αὐτὴν καθαρῶ. ἰδὼν Ὀλυμπιονίκην εἰς ἑταίραν πυκνότερον ἀτενίζοντα, ἴδε, ἔφη, κριὸν Ἀρειμάνιον ὡς ὑπὸ τοῦ τυχόντος κορασίου τραχηλίζεται. τὰς εὐπρεπεῖς ἑταίρας ἔλεγε …

Pausanias, Description of Greece 7.24.11: τὸν δὲ αὐτῶν ὀλεθριώτατον τοιῷδέ τινι ἐθέλουσιν εἰκάζειν, τὸ ἐντὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου πνεῦμα εἰ συνεχεῖ πυρετῷ πυκνότερόν τε καὶ ὑπὸ πολλῆς ἄνω τῆς βίας ὠθοῖτο· τοῦτο δὲ ἀλλαχοῦ τε τοῦ σώματος ἐπισημαίνει καὶ ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν ὑπὸ ἑκά …

All forms of πυκνός (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.