ἀναγκαιότατον (anankaiotaton)

ἀναγκαιότατον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀναγκαῖος, meaning “necessary; close (kinsman)”.

Found 55 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.1.7: ἐρωτηθεὶς τί τῶν μαθημάτων ἀναγκαιότατον, τὸ περιαιρεῖν, ἔφη, τὸ ἀπομανθάνειν. παρεκελεύετό τε κακῶς ἀκούοντας καρτερεῖν μᾶλλον ἢ εἰ λίθοις τις βάλλοι …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 50.17.2: πολεμήσοντας τυχεῖν, ἀναγκαιότατόν μοι τὸν περὶ ἐμαυτοῦ λόγον αὐτὴ ἡ χρεία πεποίηκεν, ἵνʼ ἔτι μᾶλλον εἰδῆτε τοῦθʼ, ὅτι αὐτοί τε τοιοῦτοί ἐστε οἷοι καὶ ἄνευ ἄρχοντος ἀγαθοῦ νικᾶν, καὶ ἐγὼ τοιοῦτος οἷος καὶ μετὰ κακῶν στρατιωτῶν κρατεῖν δύνασθαι.

All forms of ἀναγκαῖος (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.