ἔσχατος

By surface analysis, ἐξ (ex, “out”) +‎ -ᾰτος (-ătos, superlative suffix), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *eǵʰs-katos. Compare with ἔγκατα (énkata, “intestines”) and the same difficulty in ἐχθός (ekhthós) = ἐκτός (ektós).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What is PIE *katos?”)

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

1. At one end of a continuum:
   1. (of space) farthest, most remote [with genitive ‘from something or someone’]
      1. last, at the end
      2. at the back, hindmost
      3. lowest
      4. highest
      5. innermost
   2. (of time) last, final

      Antonym: πρῶτος (prôtos)

   3. (of degree) extreme
   4. (of quality) best; worst

• → 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^[1], 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.