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ἀμείνω (ameino)

ἀμείνω is an Ancient Greek form of ἀμείνων, meaning “better, stronger”. It is the nominative plural neuter comparative adjective.

Found 131 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.43.2: καθέστηκε δὲ τἀγαθὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ εὐθέος λεγόμενα μηδὲν ἀνυποπτότερα εἶναι τῶν κακῶν, ὥστε δεῖν ὁμοίως τόν τε τὰ δεινότατα βουλόμενον πεῖσαι ἀπάτῃ προσάγεσθαι τὸ πλῆθος καὶ τὸν τὰ ἀμείνω λέγοντα ψευσάμενον πιστὸν γενέσθαι.

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume I 6.356.1: Κλειοῦς αἱ δύο παῖδες Ἀριστοδίκη καὶ Ἀμεινὼ

All forms of ἀμείνων (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.