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-ιστος
-ιστος
Ancient Greek
Suffix
-ιστος • (-istos)
- Added to some adjectives to form a superlative adjective
Inflection
Declension of -ῐστος; -ῐ́στη; -ῐστον
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | ||||
| Nominative | -ῐστος | -ῐ́στη | -ῐστον | -ῐ́στω | -ῐ́στᾱ | -ῐ́στω | -ῐστοι | -ῐσται | -ῐστᾰ | ||||
| Genitive | -ῐ́στου | -ῐ́στης | -ῐ́στου | -ῐ́στοιν | -ῐ́σταιν | -ῐ́στοιν | -ῐ́στων | -ῐ́στων | -ῐ́στων | ||||
| Dative | -ῐ́στῳ | -ῐ́στῃ | -ῐ́στῳ | -ῐ́στοιν | -ῐ́σταιν | -ῐ́στοιν | -ῐ́στοις | -ῐ́σταις | -ῐ́στοις | ||||
| Accusative | -ῐστον | -ῐ́στην | -ῐστον | -ῐ́στω | -ῐ́στᾱ | -ῐ́στω | -ῐ́στους | -ῐ́στᾱς | -ῐστᾰ | ||||
| Vocative | -ῐστε | -ῐ́στη | -ῐστον | -ῐ́στω | -ῐ́στᾱ | -ῐ́στω | -ῐστοι | -ῐσται | -ῐστᾰ | ||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | ||||||||||
| -ιστα | — | — | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- -ιστα (-ista)
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Ancient_Greek_words_suffixed_with_-%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82'>Ancient Greek words suffixed with -ιστος</a>
References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 318