Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὀλίος ‎(olíos) (Later Greek)
• 𐠃𐠑𐠿𐠚 ‎(o-li-kso-ne) (Cypriot syllabary)

Adjective

ὀλίγος • ‎(olígos) m ‎(feminine ὀλίγη, neuter ὀλίγον); first/second declension

1. Of small amount: few, little
2. Of small size: little, small
3. Of small degree: slight

Declension

Antonyms

• πολύς ‎(polús)

Derived terms

• ὀλῐγόθερμος ‎(oligóthermos)

Descendants

• English: oligo-
• Greek: λίγος ‎(lígos)

References

• ὀλίγος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀλίγος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀλίγος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὀλίγος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ὀλίγος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ὀλίγος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3641”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brief idem, page 98.
  • distant idem, page 240.
  • faint idem, page 302.
  • few idem, page 317.
  • insignificant idem, page 445.
  • jejune idem, page 462.
  • languid idem, page 475.
  • limited idem, page 492.
  • little idem, page 495.
  • meagre idem, page 519.
  • petty idem, page 609.
  • remote idem, page 694.
  • scant idem, page 737.
  • short idem, page 768.
  • slack idem, page 782.
  • slender idem, page 783.
  • slight idem, page 784.
  • small idem, page 786.
  • trifling idem, page 895.
  • trivial idem, page 896.
  • weak idem, page 969.