ἥσσων

Ancient Greek

Comparative, possibly from the adverb ἦκα (êka, “slightly”) +‎ -ίων (-íōn).^[1]

ἥσσων • (hḗssōn) m or f (neuter ἧσσον); third declension

Third declension of ἥσσων; ἧσσον (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ἥσσων hḗssōn		ἧσσον hêsson	ἥσσονε hḗssone		ἥσσονε hḗssone	ἥσσονες ἥσσους hḗssones hḗssous		ἥσσονᾰ ἥσσω hḗssonă hḗssō
Genitive	ἥσσονος hḗssonos		ἥσσονος hḗssonos	ἡσσόνοιν hēssónoin		ἡσσόνοιν hēssónoin	ἡσσόνων hēssónōn		ἡσσόνων hēssónōn
Dative	ἥσσονῐ hḗssonĭ		ἥσσονῐ hḗssonĭ	ἡσσόνοιν hēssónoin		ἡσσόνοιν hēssónoin	ἥσσοσῐ ἥσσοσῐν hḗssosĭ(n)		ἥσσοσῐ ἥσσοσῐν hḗssosĭ(n)
Accusative	ἥσσονᾰ ἥσσω hḗssonă hḗssō		ἧσσον hêsson	ἥσσονε hḗssone		ἥσσονε hḗssone	ἥσσονᾰς ἥσσους hḗssonăs hḗssous		ἥσσονᾰ ἥσσω hḗssonă hḗssō
Vocative	ἧσσον hêsson		ἧσσον hêsson	ἥσσονε hḗssone		ἥσσονε hḗssone	ἥσσονες ἥσσους hḗssones hḗssous		ἥσσονᾰ ἥσσω hḗssonă hḗssō
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	ἧσσον hêsson			—			—
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἦκα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 512: “VAR > line 1 > ἥττων, Ion. ἥσσων”

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Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- below idem, page 73.
- beneath idem, page 73.
- decadent idem, page 199.
- inferior idem, page 437.
- less idem, page 485.
- lower idem, page 503.
- second idem, page 746.
- secondary idem, page 747.
- slave idem, page 782.
- subordinate idem, page 831.
- under idem, page 912.
- worse idem, page 990.
ἥσσων, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011