χειρόνων (cheironon)

χειρόνων is an Ancient Greek form of χείρων, meaning “worse”. It is the genitive plural adjective.

Found 53 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.11.118: … ιτο, διαβαλόντα τῆς θύρας τὸν δάκτυλον εἰπεῖν, χροῒ δῆλα· καὶ τοὐντεῦθεν παρὰ τοῖς φιλολόγοις ἡ λέξις ἐπὶ τῶν χειρόνων τάττεται, οἱ δʼ ἐπὶ τῶν βελτίστων χρώμενοι διαμαρτάνουσιν.

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.