= ὑβριστικός, wanton, insolent, outrageous, ἔργον Pherecr. 162; ὕ. χρῆμα (sc. ἡ γυνή) Pl.Com. 98:—hence Comp. ὑβριστότερος Hdt. 3.81 (v.l. ὑβριστικώτερος), X. Cyr. 5.5.41, Pl. Lg. 641c: Sup. ὑβριστότατος Ar. V. 1303, X. An. 5.8.22, Mem. 1.2.12, Pl. Lg. 808d.—In AB 368 (where Pherecr. and Pl.Com. are cited) we are told that ὕβριστος is of the same type as Superlatives like βέλτιστος, κάλλιστος, κράτιστος, etc.; in which case ὑβριστότερος, -ότατος would have to be regarded as doubled forms of comp
The corpus record
ὕβρ-ιστος
ubristos
wanton, insolent, outrageous
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Where it lives
- Hiero 1 · 1.68/10k
- Anabasis 2 · 0.36/10k
- Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
- Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
wanton, insolent, outrageous
In the wild
- ὑβριστότερον · hybristoteron Herodotus, Histories 3.81.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3506)
- ὑβριστότεροι · hybristoteroi Plato, Laws 641
- ὑβριστότατον · hybristotaton Plato, Laws 808
- ὑβριστοτάτους · hybristotatous Xenophon, Anabasis 5.8.22 (DIORISIS sentence 2578)
- ὑβριστότερος · hybristoteros Xenophon, Anabasis 5.8.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2520)
- ὑβριστότεροι · hybristoteroi Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.5.41 (DIORISIS sentence 2965)
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.