ἄριστα (arista)

ἄριστα is an Ancient Greek form of ἄριστος, meaning “best, noblest, bravest”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

It can also be a form of ἄριστον, “breakfast, morning meal”.

Found 608 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.43.4: καὶ τάδε ποιοῦντες τὰ προσήκοντά τε δράσετε καὶ τὰ ἄριστα βουλεύσεσθε ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς.’

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.45: … αρίζοντα Καλλισθένην καὶ λέγοντα ὡς πολυτελῶν παρʼ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ μετέχει, κακοδαίμων μὲν οὖν ἐστιν, εἶπεν, ὃς καὶ ἀριστᾷ καὶ δειπνεῖ ὅταν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ δόξῃ.

Euripides, Hippolytus 849: γυναικῶν ἀρίστα θ’ ὁπόσας ὁρᾷ

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.