περισσός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• περιττός (perittós) — Attic

Etymology

From περί (perí, “above, beyond”).

Adjective

περισσός • (perissós) m (feminine περισσή, neuter περισσόν); first/second declension

1. beyond the regular number or size, prodigious
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 399
   1. out of the common way, extraordinary, uncommon, remarkable, strange
      • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 769
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 841
      • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 1197
      • 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 791
      • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 437
      • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Second Tetralogy 4.5
      • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 77
      • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Antidosis 145
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1141B.6
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1312A.27
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1053B.3
      • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 5:47
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 531A.9
      • 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.611C
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1265A.11
      • 341 BCE – 270 BCE, Epicurus, Fragments 409
      • 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Collected Works 40.2
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Letter to Pompey 2
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Demosthenes 56
   2. (of persons) extraordinary, eminent, remarkable
      • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 948
      • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 788
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 983A.2
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 760A.4
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Problems 953A.10
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1267B.24
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 622B.6
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Demetrius 2
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Demosthenes 3
      • Alciphron, Collected Works 1.12
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 18
   3. (with genitive) beyond others in
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 155
      • Palatine Anthology 6.321
      • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 11:9
2. more than sufficient, reserve, spare, surplus
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.6.6
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.6.31
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 20.1
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.2.21
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hiero 1.19
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hipparchicus 8.14
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.6.12
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.8.11
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.3.13
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 3:1
   • 100 CE – 200 CE, Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesian Tale 1.3
   1. (in a bad sense) superfluous, redundant, useless
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 385
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 758
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 82
      • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 1048
      • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 819
      • 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 459
   2. excessive, extravagant
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.32
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 617
      • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 68
      • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 924
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 407B
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 645C
      • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Plato, Axiochus 365C
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.615D
      • 55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 2:7
   3. (of persons) over-wise, over-curious
      • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 445
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 9.1.4
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cicero 8
      • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Timarchus 119
   4. (as a term of praise) subtle, acute
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Topics 141B.13
3. (arithmetic) odd
   • 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 170.7
   • 470 BCE – 385 BCE, Philolaus, Collected Works 5
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 356E
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 4.61
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 451C
   • Hephaestio, Collected Works 5.1
   • 350 BCE – 250 BCE, Euclid, Elements 7

   Synonyms: ἀνᾰ́ρτῐος (anártios), σκαληνός (skalēnós)

   Antonyms: ἄρτιος (ártios), ἰσοσκελής (isoskelḗs)

Inflection

Further reading

• “περισσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “περισσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• περισσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “περισσός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4053 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ample idem, page 28.
  • bloated idem, page 84.
  • disproportionate idem, page 238.
  • exaggerated idem, page 287.
  • excessive idem, page 288.
  • exorbitant idem, page 292.
  • extortionate idem, page 297.
  • extraordinary idem, page 297.
  • extravagant idem, page 297.
  • exuberant idem, page 298.
  • fulsome idem, page 349.
  • immoderate idem, page 418.
  • inordinate idem, page 443.
  • intemperate idem, page 448.
  • lavish idem, page 479.
  • much idem, page 545.
  • needless idem, page 554.
  • odd idem, page 569.
  • outrageous idem, page 583.
  • overmuch idem, page 585.
  • overweening idem, page 587.
  • overwhelming idem, page 587.
  • prodigal idem, page 644.
  • prohibitive idem, page 653.
  • redundant idem, page 684.
  • spare idem, page 798.
  • strange idem, page 823.
  • superabundant idem, page 838.
  • superfluous idem, page 839.
  • supernumerary idem, page 839.
  • surplus idem, page 844.
  • sweeping idem, page 847.
  • undue idem, page 915.
  • uneven idem, page 916.
  • unnecessary idem, page 926.
  • unsparing idem, page 932.
  • waste idem, page 965.
  • wasteful idem, page 965.