ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΩΔΕΣΤΑΤΟΥΣ, κεφαλαιωδεστατους
KEPHALAIŌDESTATOUS, kephalaiōdestatous
Sounds Like: keh-fah-lah-ee-oh-des-TAH-toos
Translations: most principal, most essential, most important, most fundamental, most chief
From the root: ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is the masculine or feminine plural accusative form of the superlative adjective 'κεφαλαιώδης' (kephalaiōdēs), meaning 'principal' or 'essential'. As a superlative, it indicates the highest degree of that quality. It describes things or people that are the most important, fundamental, or chief in a given context. It would be used to modify plural nouns in the accusative case, indicating the direct object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine or Feminine, Superlative
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΑ — main points, sum, summary, headings, chapters, chief things, capital, principal, a capital, a sum
- ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΥ — of the main point, of the sum, of the capital, of the heading, of the chapter
- ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΩΔΩΣ — summarily, briefly, in sum, in short, in a summary way
- ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΩΝ — of chapters, of headings, of sums, of main points, of chief things
- ΚΕΦΑΛΙΟΩ — to sum up, to summarize, to bring to a head, to make a summary
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