Χερείων

worse, inferior

Translated by Jennifer Benedict19 Mar 2008Vetting: high5 revisions

5 words

[Meaning] worst [or, very bad].

Greek original · Adler’s text

Χερείων· χείριστος.

Betacode

*xerei/wn: xei/ristos.

The headword is a comparative adjective (in the masculine/feminine nominative singular), suppletive to kako/s ("bad, base"). The gloss is the superlative form of the headword. Similarly already in Hesychius and the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.114 (where the headword appears: web address 1 below).