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|strgr=[[apparently]] neuter of a [[superlative]] from the [[same]] as [[ἄῤῥην]]; the [[best]] [[meal]] (or [[breakfast]]; [[perhaps]] from eri ("[[early]]")), i.e. luncheon: [[dinner]].
|strgr=[[apparently]] neuter of a [[superlative]] from the [[same]] as [[ἄῤῥην]]; the [[best]] [[meal]] (or [[breakfast]]; [[perhaps]] from eri ("[[early]]")), i.e. luncheon: [[dinner]].
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|txtha=ἀρίστου, τό (from [[Homer]] [[down]]);<br /><b class="num">a.</b> the [[first]] [[food]], taken [[early]] in the [[morning]] [[before]] [[work]], [[breakfast]]; [[dinner]] [[was]] called [[δεῖπνον]]. But the [[later]] Greeks called [[breakfast]]; τό [[ἀκράτισμα]], and [[dinner]] [[ἄριστον]] i. e. [[δεῖπνον]] μεσηβρινον, Athen. 1,9, 10, p. 11b.; and so in the N. T. Hence,<br /><b class="num">b.</b> [[dinner]]: ποιεῖν [[ἄριστον]] ἤ [[δεῖπνον]], to [[which]] others are invited); ἑτοιμάζειν). (B. D. [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, Meals; Becker's [[Charicles]], [[namely]], vi. excurs. i. (English translation, p. 312 f).)
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