ἀξιόλογος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἄξιος (áxios, “worthy”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ak.si.ó.lo.ɡos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ak.siˈo.lo.ɡos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ak.siˈo.lo.ɣos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ak.siˈo.lo.ɣos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ak.siˈo.lo.ɣos/
Adjective
ᾰ̓ξῐόλογος • (axiólogos) m, f (neuter ᾰ̓ξῐόλογον); second declension
- worthy of mention: remarkable, important
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.1:
- ἐλπίσας μέγαν τε ἔσεσθαι καὶ ἀξιολογώτατον τῶν προγεγενημένων
- elpísas mégan te ésesthai kaì axiologṓtaton tôn progegenēménōn
- believing that [the war] would be great and the most remarkable of any that have come before
- ἐλπίσας μέγαν τε ἔσεσθαι καὶ ἀξιολογώτατον τῶν προγεγενημένων
Declension
Second declension of ᾰ̓ξῐόλογος; ᾰ̓ξῐόλογον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | ᾰ̓ξῐόλογος axiólogos | ᾰ̓ξῐόλογον axiólogon | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγω axiológō | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγω axiológō | ᾰ̓ξῐόλογοι axiólogoi | ᾰ̓ξῐόλογᾰ axióloga | ||||||||
Genitive | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγου axiológou | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγου axiológou | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγοιν axiológoin | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγοιν axiológoin | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγων axiológōn | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγων axiológōn | ||||||||
Dative | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγῳ axiológōi | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγῳ axiológōi | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγοιν axiológoin | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγοιν axiológoin | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγοις axiológois | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγοις axiológois | ||||||||
Accusative | ᾰ̓ξῐόλογον axiólogon | ᾰ̓ξῐόλογον axiólogon | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγω axiológō | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγω axiológō | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγους axiológous | ᾰ̓ξῐόλογᾰ axióloga | ||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓ξῐόλογε axióloge | ᾰ̓ξῐόλογον axiólogon | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγω axiológō | ᾰ̓ξῐολόγω axiológō | ᾰ̓ξῐόλογοι axiólogoi | ᾰ̓ξῐόλογᾰ axióloga | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
ᾰ̓ξῐολόγως axiológōs | ᾰ̓ξῐολογώτερος axiologṓteros | ᾰ̓ξῐολογώτᾰτος axiologṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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References
- ἀξιόλογος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press