ΠΕΡΙΚΑΛΛΕΣΤΑΤΗΝ, περικαλλεστατην
PERIKALLESTATĒN, perikallestatēn
Sounds Like: peh-ree-KAL-les-tah-teen
Translations: most beautiful, very beautiful, the most beautiful, a most beautiful
From the root: ΠΕΡΙΚΑΛΛΗΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is an adjective meaning 'most beautiful' or 'very beautiful'. It is the superlative form of 'beautiful', indicating the highest degree of beauty. It is used to describe something that is exceedingly lovely or splendid. In a sentence, it would modify a noun, agreeing with it in gender, number, and case.
Inflection: Accusative, Singular, Feminine, Superlative
Strong’s number: G4020 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 16:63
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.
- ΠΕΡΙΚΑΛΛΕΣΤΑΤΟΣ — most beautiful, most excellent, most splendid, very beautiful, very excellent, very splendid
- ΠΕΡΙΚΑΛΛΕΣΤΑΤΟΥΣ — most beautiful, most excellent, most glorious, most splendid
- ΠΕΡΙΚΑΛΛΗ — very beautiful, exceedingly fair, very splendid, very glorious, very excellent
- ΠΕΡΙΚΑΛΛΗΣ — very beautiful, exceedingly fair, splendid, glorious
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