ἔσχατος

Possibly for Proto-Indo-European *eǵʰs-katos, from ἐξ (ex, “out”). Compare with ἔγκατα (énkata, “intestines”) and the same difficulty in ἐχθός (ekhthós) = ἐκτός (ektós).

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ἔσχᾰτος • (éskhătos) m (feminine ἐσχᾰ́τη, neuter ἔσχᾰτον); first/second declension

1. At one end of a continuum
   1. (of space) farthest, most remote
      1. last, at the end
      2. at the back, hindmost
      3. lowest
      4. highest
      5. innermost
   2. (of time) last, final
   3. (of degree) extreme
   4. (of quality) best; worst
2. Neuter ἔσχᾰτον (éskhăton), as substantive: the end, the utmost, the worst

• (antonym(s) of “of time”): πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”)

• → Greek: έσχατος (éschatos) (learned)
• →⇒ English: eschatology
• → Laz: ესკატი (esǩaťi)

• “ἔσχατος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔσχατος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἔσχατος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἔσχατος 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
• ἔσχατος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἔσχατος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2078 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.
  • abject idem, page 2.
  • acute idem, page 10.
  • closing idem, page 139.
  • concluding idem, page 155.
  • distant idem, page 240.
  • end idem, page 272.
  • excruciating idem, page 289.
  • exquisite idem, page 296.
  • extreme idem, page 298.
  • extremity idem, page 298.
  • final idem, page 320.
  • furthest idem, page 350.
  • highest idem, page 400.
  • hind idem, page 400.
  • inmost idem, page 442.
  • last idem, page 477.
  • nethermost idem, page 556.
  • out of idem, page 581.
  • outermost idem, page 582.
  • outlying idem, page 582.
  • poignant idem, page 623.
  • remote idem, page 694.
  • stage idem, page 808.
  • supreme idem, page 842.
  • thorough-going idem, page 868.
  • ultimate idem, page 905.
  • utmost idem, page 941.
  • utter idem, page 941.
  • uttermost idem, page 941.
  • verge idem, page 948.
  • worst idem, page 990.