χείριστον (cheiriston)

χείριστον is an Ancient Greek form of χείρων, meaning “worse”. It is the accusative singular masculine superlative adjective.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De liberis educandis 7·2: … παραλιπών, φίλῳ χαριζόμενος τὸν διʼ ἀπειρίαν ἀπολέσαντʼ ἂν αὐτὸν προέλοιτο, ἢ ναύκληρον τὸν ἄριστον ἀφεὶς τὸν χείριστον δοκιμάσειε φίλου δεηθέντος. Ζεῦ καὶ θεοὶ πάντες, πατήρ τις καλούμενος πλείω λόγον τῆς τῶν δεομένων ποιεῖται χ …

All forms of χείρων (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.