μείζων

• μέζων (mézōn) — Ionic, Aeolic, Doric, Arcadocypriot
• μέσδων (mésdōn) — Doric

From Proto-Hellenic *méďďōn, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yōs, from *méǵh₂s (“great”), from which comes μέγᾰς (mégas). The ει (ei) is a long vowel that developed by analogy with κρείττων (kreíttōn) and ἀμείνων (ameínōn). By surface analysis, μέγας (mégas) +‎ -ίων (-íōn).

μείζων • (meízōn) m or f (neuter μεῖζον); third declension (Attic)

1. comparative degree of μέγας (mégas)
   1. greater, larger, longer, taller, older
   2. too great

μείζων • (meízōn) m (genitive μείζονος); third declension

1. village elder

• “μέγας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μέγας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μείζων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “μέγας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3187 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• μείζων in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

μείζων • (meízon) m (feminine μείζων, neuter μείζον)

1. major, greater, more important

   μείζων καταθλιπτική διαταραχή ― meízon katathliptikí diatarachí ― major depressive disorder

2. (music) major (key signature, scale, chord or interval)

   μείζων κλίμακα ― meízon klímaka ― major key

   μείζων συγχορδία ― meízon synchordía ― major chord

• (music): ματζόρε n (matzóre)

• ελάσσων (elásson, “minor”)