ἐλάττων (elatton)

ἐλάττων is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλάσσων, meaning “smaller, less”. It is the nominative singular masculine comparative adjective.

Found 197 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.150: … αλεῖται δὲ διχῶς, οὐσία τε καὶ ὕλη, ἥ τε τῶν πάντων καὶ ἡ τῶν ἐπὶ μέρους. ἡ μὲν οὖν τῶν ὅλων οὔτε πλείων οὔτʼ ἐλάττων γίνεται, ἡ δὲ τῶν ἐπὶ μέρους καὶ πλείων καὶ ἐλάττων. σῶμα δέ ἐστι κατʼ αὐτοὺς ἡ οὐσία καὶ πεπερασμένη, καθά φ …

Aristophanes, Wasps 1274: Θετταλῶν, αὐτὸς πενέστης ὢν ἔλαττων οὐδενός.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 153: … , τοσαυτάκις χάριν ὁμολογοῦμεν τῷ Θεῷ, ὅτι διαμένεις καὶ μεμνημένος ἡμῶν καὶ ὑπʼ οὐδεμιᾶς διαβολῆς τὴν ἀγάπην ἐλαττῶν, ἣν ἅπαξ κρίσει τῇ ὀρθοτάτῃ ἢ συνηθείᾳ χρηστῇ ἀναλαβεῖν κατεδέξω. εὐχόμεθα οὖν τῷ ἁγίῳ Θεῷ καὶ σὲ διαμεῖναι ἐ …

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.