ἄμεινον (ameinon)

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

Found 763 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.82.2: καὶ ἢν μὲν ἐσακούωσί τι πρεσβευομένων ἡμῶν, ταῦτα ἄριστα· ἢν δὲ μή, διελθόντων ἐτῶν δύο καὶ τριῶν ἄμεινον ἤδη, ἢν δοκῇ, πεφραγμένοι ἴμεν ἐπ’ αὐτούς.

Euripides, Alcestis 433: τοῦδ’ οὐδ’ ἀμείνον’ εἰς ἔμʼ· ἀξία δέ μοι

Euripides, Ion 544b: ταῦτʼ ἀμείνονʼ, ὦ τέκνον.

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.