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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">better, stronger, more advantageous</b> (Il.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Attic proper names with <b class="b3">Ἀμειν-</b> are supposed to show that the <b class="b3">-ει</b> is a real diphtong, so not from <b class="b3">*ἀμενι̯ων</b>. Seiler Steigerungsformen 120 assumes <b class="b3">*ἀ-μεινι̯ων</b>, from <b class="b3">*μινύς</b>. DELG remarks that a suffix <b class="b2">-yon-</b> is uncertain and that the word could be an old positive. Note that a root <b class="b2">*h₂mein-</b> is impossible in IE (so <b class="b2">*h₂mei-n-</b>). No etym. | |etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">better, stronger, more advantageous</b> (Il.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Attic proper names with <b class="b3">Ἀμειν-</b> are supposed to show that the <b class="b3">-ει</b> is a real diphtong, so not from <b class="b3">*ἀμενι̯ων</b>. Seiler Steigerungsformen 120 assumes <b class="b3">*ἀ-μεινι̯ων</b>, from <b class="b3">*μινύς</b>. DELG remarks that a suffix <b class="b2">-yon-</b> is uncertain and that the word could be an old positive. Note that a root <b class="b2">*h₂mein-</b> is impossible in IE (so <b class="b2">*h₂mei-n-</b>). No etym. | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=[irreg. comp. of [[ἀγαθός]]<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[better]], abler, stronger, braver, Hom., etc.; v. [[ἀγαθός]].<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of things, [[better]], fitter, Hom.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> ἄμεινόν [ἐστι] 'tis [[better]], c. inf., [[ἐπεὶ]] πείθεσθαι [[ἄμεινον]] Il., etc.; with negat., οὐ γὰρ [[ἄμεινον]] 'twere [[better]] not, Hdt.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> τὰ ἀμείνω φρονέειν to [[choose]] the [[better]] [[part]], Hdt. | |||
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