ἄγχιστα (anchista)

ἄγχιστα is an Ancient Greek form of ἄγχιστος, meaning “nearest”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 190 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium 12: … ὸ γὰρ τὸ πρᾶγμα φανερόν ἐστι πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις, μαρτυρεῖ δὲ καὶ Ὅμηρος ἐπʼ αὐτοῦ λέγων νήγρετος ἥδιστός, θανάτῳ ἄγχιστα ἐοικώς ἀλλαχοῦ δὲ καὶ ταῦτα λέγει ἔνθʼ Ὕπνῳ ξύμβλητο, κασιγνήτῳ Θανάτοιο καὶ Ὕπνῳ καὶ Θανάτῳ διδυμάοσιν, ὄψει …

Procopius, De Bellis 1.7.18: καί τινες ἑταῖραι ἀνελκύσασαι κόσμῳ οὐδενὶ τὴν ἐσθῆτα Καβάδῃ ἄγχιστά που ἑστηκότι ἐδείκνυον ὅσα τῶν γυναικῶν γυμνᾶ φανῆναι ἀνδράσιν οὐ θέμις.

All forms of ἄγχιστος (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.