ἀρίστη (ariste)

ἀρίστη is an Ancient Greek form of ἄριστος, meaning “best, noblest, bravest”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 137 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1104: τῶ μʼ ἐπέοικε δίκην, ἥτις μετὰ πᾶσιν ἀρίστη

Euripides, Hecuba 580: ψυχήν τʼ ἀρίστῃ; τοιάδʼ ἀμφὶ σῆς λέγων

Strabo, Geography 15.1.37: Ἀρίστη δʼ ὁμολογεῖται πᾶσα ἡ τοῦ Ὑπάνιος πέραν· οὐκ ἀκριβοῦνται δέ, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὴν ἄγνοιαν καὶ τὸν ἐκτοπισμὸν λέγεται …

All forms of ἄριστος (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.