ἐλάσσων
See also: ελάσσων
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *elə́ťťōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʷʰ-yōs, from *h₁lengʷʰ- (“light (of weight)”). By surface analysis, ἐλαχύς (elakhús) + -ίων (-íōn).
Adjective
ἐλᾰ́σσων • (elássōn) m or f (neuter ἔλᾰσσον); third declension
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | ἐλᾰ́σσων elássōn |
ἔλᾰσσον élasson |
ἐλᾰ́σσονε elássone |
ἐλᾰ́σσονε elássone |
ἐλᾰ́σσονες / ἐλᾰ́σσους elássones / elássous |
ἐλᾰ́σσονᾰ / ἐλᾰ́σσω elássona / elássō | ||||||||
| Genitive | ἐλᾰ́σσονος elássonos |
ἐλᾰ́σσονος elássonos |
ἐλᾰσσόνοιν elassónoin |
ἐλᾰσσόνοιν elassónoin |
ἐλᾰσσόνων elassónōn |
ἐλᾰσσόνων elassónōn | ||||||||
| Dative | ἐλᾰ́σσονῐ elássoni |
ἐλᾰ́σσονῐ elássoni |
ἐλᾰσσόνοιν elassónoin |
ἐλᾰσσόνοιν elassónoin |
ἐλᾰ́σσοσῐ / ἐλᾰ́σσοσῐν elássosi(n) |
ἐλᾰ́σσοσῐ / ἐλᾰ́σσοσῐν elássosi(n) | ||||||||
| Accusative | ἐλᾰ́σσονᾰ / ἐλᾰ́σσω elássona / elássō |
ἔλᾰσσον élasson |
ἐλᾰ́σσονε elássone |
ἐλᾰ́σσονε elássone |
ἐλᾰ́σσονᾰς / ἐλᾰ́σσους elássonas / elássous |
ἐλᾰ́σσονᾰ / ἐλᾰ́σσω elássona / elássō | ||||||||
| Vocative | ἔλᾰσσον élasson |
ἔλᾰσσον élasson |
ἐλᾰ́σσονε elássone |
ἐλᾰ́σσονε elássone |
ἐλᾰ́σσονες / ἐλᾰ́σσους elássones / elássous |
ἐλᾰ́σσονᾰ / ἐλᾰ́σσω elássona / elássō | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ἔλᾰσσον élasson |
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Descendants
- Greek: ελάσσων (elásson)
Further reading
- “ἐλάσσων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐλάσσων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἐλάσσων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἐλάσσων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐλάσσων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἐλάσσων in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1640 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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