ἐλάσσονα (elassona)

ἐλάσσονα is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλάσσων, meaning “smaller, less”. It is the accusative plural neuter comparative adjective.

Found 78 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.15: … ισσαν ἴδον λιχνόγραυν σκιερῷ ἐνὶ τύφῳ πάντων ἱμείρουσαν· ὁ δʼ ἔρρει γυργαθὸς αὐτῆς σμικρὸς ἐών· νοῦν δʼ εἶχεν ἐλάσσονα κινδαψοῖο.

Euclid, Elementa 12.prop.18: … μὴ ἡ ΑΒΓ σφαῖρα πρὸς τὴν ΔΕΖ σφαῖραν τριπλασίονα λόγον ἔχει ἤπερ ἡ ΒΓ πρὸς τὴν ΕΖ, ἕξει ἄρα ἡ ΑΒΓ σφαῖρα πρὸς ἐλάσσονά τινα τῆς ΔΕΖ σφαίρας τριπλασίονα λόγον ἢ πρὸς μείζονα ἤπερ ἡ ΒΓ πρὸς τὴν ΕΖ. ἐχέτω πρότερον πρὸς ἐλάσσονα τὴν …

All forms of ἐλάσσων (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.