ἔλασσον (elasson)

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

Found 201 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.105.5: καὶ μάχης γενομένης ἰσορρόπου πρὸς Κορινθίους διεκρίθησαν ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων, καὶ ἐνόμισαν αὐτοὶ ἑκάτεροι οὐκ ἔλασσον ἔχειν ἐν τῷ ἔργῳ.

Euripides, Heracleidae 363: οὐδὲν ἐλάσσονʼ Ἄργους,

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus 14: … λεις, οἷον παρὰ τῶν πατέρων παρέλαβον, ταῦτα λέγει· πρὸς τάδε βουλεύεσθε εὖ, καὶ τὴν Πελοπόννησον πειρᾶσθε μὴ ἐλάσσον ἐξηγεῖσθαι ἢ οἱ πατέρες ὑμῖν παρέδοσαν· τὸ γὰρ ἐξηγεῖσθαι νῦν τέθηκεν ἐπὶ τοῦ προάγειν ἔξω τὴν Πελοπόννησον ἡ …

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.