περισσός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- περιττός (perittós) – Attic
Etymology
From περί (perí, “above, beyond”).
Adjective
περισσός • (perissós) m (feminine περισσή, neuter περισσόν); first/second declension
- beyond the regular number or size, prodigious
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 399
- out of the common way, extraordinary, uncommon, remarkable, strange
- 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 769
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 841
- 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 1197
- 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 791
- 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 437
- 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Second Tetralogy 4.5
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 77
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Antidosis 145
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1141B.6
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1312A.27
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1053B.3
- 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 5:47
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 531A.9
- 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.611C
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1265A.11
- 341 BCE – 270 BCE, Epicurus, Fragments 409
- 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Collected Works 40.2
- 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Letter to Pompey 2
- 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On the Admirable Style of Demosthenes 56
- (of persons) extraordinary, eminent, remarkable
- 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 948
- 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 788
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 983A.2
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 760A.4
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Problems 953A.10
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1267B.24
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 622B.6
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Demetrius 2
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Demosthenes 3
- Alciphron, Collected Works 1.12
- 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 18
- (with genitive) beyond others in
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 155
- Palatine Anthology 6.321
- 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 11:9
- more than sufficient, reserve, spare, surplus
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.6.6
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.6.31
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 20.1
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.2.21
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hiero 1.19
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hipparchicus 8.14
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.6.12
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.8.11
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.3.13
- New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 3:1
- 100 CE – 200 CE, Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesian Tale 1.3
- (in a bad sense) superfluous, redundant, useless
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 385
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 758
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 82
- 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 1048
- 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 819
- 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 459
- excessive, extravagant
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.32
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 617
- 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 68
- 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 924
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 407B
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 645C
- 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Plato, Axiochus 365C
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.615D
- 55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 2:7
- (of persons) over-wise, over-curious
- 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 445
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 9.1.4
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cicero 8
- 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Timarchus 119
- (as a term of praise) subtle, acute
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Topics 141B.13
- (arithmetic) odd
- 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 170.7
- 470 BCE – 385 BCE, Philolaus, Collected Works 5
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 356E
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 4.61
- 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 451C
- Hephaestio, Collected Works 5.1
- 350 BCE – 250 BCE, Euclid, Elements 7
- Synonyms: ἀνᾰ́ρτῐος (anártios), σκαληνός (skalēnós)
- Antonyms: ἄρτιος (ártios), ἰσοσκελής (isoskelḗs)
Inflection
First and second declension of περισσός; περισσή; περισσόν (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | περισσός perissós | περισσή perissḗ | περισσόν perissón | περισσώ perissṓ | περισσᾱ́ perissā́ | περισσώ perissṓ | περισσοί perissoí | περισσαί perissaí | περισσᾰ́ perissá | |||||
Genitive | περισσοῦ perissoû | περισσῆς perissês | περισσοῦ perissoû | περισσοῖν perissoîn | περισσαῖν perissaîn | περισσοῖν perissoîn | περισσῶν perissôn | περισσῶν perissôn | περισσῶν perissôn | |||||
Dative | περισσῷ perissôi | περισσῇ perissêi | περισσῷ perissôi | περισσοῖν perissoîn | περισσαῖν perissaîn | περισσοῖν perissoîn | περισσοῖς perissoîs | περισσαῖς perissaîs | περισσοῖς perissoîs | |||||
Accusative | περισσόν perissón | περισσήν perissḗn | περισσόν perissón | περισσώ perissṓ | περισσᾱ́ perissā́ | περισσώ perissṓ | περισσούς perissoús | περισσᾱ́ς perissā́s | περισσᾰ́ perissá | |||||
Vocative | περισσέ perissé | περισσή perissḗ | περισσόν perissón | περισσώ perissṓ | περισσᾱ́ perissā́ | περισσώ perissṓ | περισσοί perissoí | περισσαί perissaí | περισσᾰ́ perissá | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
περισσῶς perissôs | περισσότερος perissóteros | περισσότᾰτος perissótatos | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “περισσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “περισσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- περισσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “περισσός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4053 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.
- ample idem, page 28.
- bloated idem, page 84.
- disproportionate idem, page 238.
- exaggerated idem, page 287.
- excessive idem, page 288.
- exorbitant idem, page 292.
- extortionate idem, page 297.
- extraordinary idem, page 297.
- extravagant idem, page 297.
- exuberant idem, page 298.
- fulsome idem, page 349.
- immoderate idem, page 418.
- inordinate idem, page 443.
- intemperate idem, page 448.
- lavish idem, page 479.
- much idem, page 545.
- needless idem, page 554.
- odd idem, page 569.
- outrageous idem, page 583.
- overmuch idem, page 585.
- overweening idem, page 587.
- overwhelming idem, page 587.
- prodigal idem, page 644.
- prohibitive idem, page 653.
- redundant idem, page 684.
- spare idem, page 798.
- strange idem, page 823.
- superabundant idem, page 838.
- superfluous idem, page 839.
- supernumerary idem, page 839.
- surplus idem, page 844.
- sweeping idem, page 847.
- undue idem, page 915.
- uneven idem, page 916.
- unnecessary idem, page 926.
- unsparing idem, page 932.
- waste idem, page 965.
- wasteful idem, page 965.