ΠΕΡΙΚΑΛΛΕΣΤΑΤΟΥΣ, περικαλλεστατους
PERIKALLESTATOUS, perikallestatous
Sounds Like: peh-ree-kal-LEH-stah-toos
Translations: most beautiful, most excellent, most glorious, most splendid
From the root: ΠΕΡΙΚΑΛΛΗΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is a superlative adjective meaning 'most beautiful' or 'most excellent'. It is a compound word formed from 'περί' (peri), meaning 'around' or 'exceedingly', and 'κάλλος' (kallos), meaning 'beauty'. It describes something that is exceptionally lovely, splendid, or glorious, surpassing all others in beauty or excellence. It would be used to modify a noun, indicating that the noun possesses the highest degree of beauty or quality.
Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Masculine, Superlative
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 22:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΕΡΙΚΑΛΛΗΣ.
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.
- ΠΕΡΙΚΑΛΛΕΣΤΑΤΗΝ — most beautiful, very beautiful, the most beautiful, a most beautiful
- ΠΕΡΙΚΑΛΛΕΣΤΑΤΟΣ — most beautiful, most excellent, most splendid, very beautiful, very excellent, very splendid
- ΠΕΡΙΚΑΛΛΗ — very beautiful, exceedingly fair, very splendid, very glorious, very excellent
- ΠΕΡΙΚΑΛΛΗΣ — very beautiful, exceedingly fair, splendid, glorious
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