ἐπαινετόν (epaineton)

ἐπαινετόν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπαινετός, meaning “to be praised, praiseworthy, laudable”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or adjective or accusative singular noun or adjective.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.89: … αστῶν, τὸ δὲ ἐνδόξων, τὸ δʼ ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτοῦ καλοκαγαθίας. Τὸ κάλλος διαιρεῖται εἰς τρία· ἓν μὲν γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἐστιν ἐπαινετόν, οἷον ἡ διὰ τῆς ὄψεως εὐμορφία· ἄλλο δὲ χρηστικόν, οἷον ὄργανον καὶ οἰκία καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα πρὸς χρῆσίν ἐστι καλ …

Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis 13·2: … γαθὸν εἶναι, τοιούτοις λόγοις κέχρηται τἀγαθὸν αἱρετόν, τὸ δʼ αἱρετὸν ἀρεστόν, τὸ δʼ ἀρεστὸν ἐπαινετόν, τὸ δʼ ἐπαινετὸν καλόν·

New Testament, Romans 16.5: καὶ τὴν κατʼ οἶκον αὐτῶν ἐκκλησίαν. ἀσπάσασθε Ἐπαίνετον τὸν ἀγαπητόν μου, ὅς ἐστιν ἀπαρχὴ τῆς Ἀσίας εἰς Χριστόν.

All forms of ἐπαινετός (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.