ἄριστον

From Proto-Hellenic *ayerīston, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyeri-h₁d-to-. First part in ἦρι (êri, “early”), second is zero-grade of ἔδω (édō, “to eat”), thus “early meal”.

• ἀέριστον (aériston) — Homeric

ᾱ̓́ρῑστον • (ā́rīston) n (genitive ᾱ̓ρῑ́στου); second declension

1. morning meal, breakfast (early usage, i.e. Homeric)
2. lunch (later usage, replaced with ἀκράτισμα (akrátisma) as word for breakfast)

• “ἄριστον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄριστον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄριστον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄριστον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἄριστον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄριστον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G712 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.
  • breakfast idem, page 96.
  • lunch idem, page 505.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

ᾰ̓́ρῐστον • (áriston)

1. inflection of ἄριστος (áristos):
   1. accusative singular masculine
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative singular neuter