Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀέριστον ‎(aériston) (Homeric)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /áriston/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /áriston/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /áɾiston/

Noun

ἄριστον • ‎(áriston) n ‎(genitive ἀρίστου); second declension

1. morning meal, breakfast (early usage, i.e. Homeric)
2. lunch (later usage, replaced with ἀκράτισμα as word for breakfast)

Inflection

References

• ἄριστον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄριστον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄριστον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἄριστον» 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
• «ἄριστον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἄριστον» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G712”, 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.
  • breakfast idem, page 96.
  • lunch idem, page 505.
• Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag

Etymology 2

Adjective

ἄριστον • ‎(áriston) n

1. inflection of ἄριστος ‎(áristos):