σοφώτερος (sophoteros)

σοφώτερος is an Ancient Greek form of σοφός, meaning “wise, skilled”. It is the nominative singular masculine comparative adjective.

Found 60 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.1.30: Καὶ περιελθεῖν εἰς Χίλωνα, ὃν πυνθάνεσθαι τοῦ Πυθίου τίς αὑτοῦ σοφώτερος· καὶ τὸν ἀνελεῖν Μύσωνα, περὶ οὗ λέξομεν. (τοῦτον οἱ περὶ τὸν Εὔδοξον ἀντὶ Κλεοβούλου τιθέασι, Πλάτων δʼ ἀντὶ …

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 2.4·2: … ισται, μάτην δʼ ἄλλα μυρία κατά γε τὸν Ἐρασιστράτειον λόγον· ἅπερ εἰ μὲν οὐδʼ ὅλως γιγνώσκει, βραχεῖ μαγείρου σοφώτερός ἐστιν ἐν ταῖς ἀνατομαῖς, εἰ δʼ εἰδὼς οὐ λέγει τὴν χρείαν αὐτῶν, οἴεται δηλονότι παραπλησίως τῷ σπληνὶ μάτην α …

All forms of σοφός (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.