# μεστός
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”) or *med- (“to be full”), the latter comparable to Sanskrit मत्त (mattá, “drunk, intoxicated”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mes.tós/ → /mesˈtos/ → /mesˈtos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /mes.tós/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /mesˈtos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /mesˈtos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /mesˈtos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /mesˈtos/

### Adjective

μεστός • (mestós)
* full
    Synonym: πλήρης (plḗrēs)
    Antonym: κενός (kenós)
    Ἔγχεον μεστήνÉnkheon mestḗnA full cup.

#### Inflection
### References

* “μεστός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “μεστός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* μεστός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* G3324 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. beset idem, page 75.fraught with idem, page 343.fruitful idem, page 348.full idem, page 348.glut idem, page 363.imbued with idem, page 417.infest idem, page 438.instinct idem, page 446.remorseful idem, page 693.replete idem, page 696.satiate idem, page 734.saturated idem, page 735.sink idem, page 779.steep idem, page 815.surfeit idem, page 843.swarm idem, page 846.
* Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

## Greek
### Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek μεστός (mestós, “full”).

### Adjective

μεστός • (mestós) m (feminine μεστή, neuter μεστό)
* ripe (cereal crops)
* tough (peas, etc)
* full
* mature

#### Declension

| number case \ gender | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| number case \ gender | masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter |
| nominative | μεστός • | μεστή • | μεστό • | μεστοί • | μεστές • | μεστά • |
| genitive | μεστού • | μεστής • | μεστού • | μεστών • | μεστών • | μεστών • |
| accusative | μεστό • | μεστή • | μεστό • | μεστούς • | μεστές • | μεστά • |
| vocative | μεστέ • | μεστή • | μεστό • | μεστοί • | μεστές • | μεστά • |
| derivations | Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο μεστός, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο μεστός, etc.) | Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο μεστός, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο μεστός, etc.) | Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο μεστός, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο μεστός, etc.) | Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο μεστός, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο μεστός, etc.) | Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο μεστός, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο μεστός, etc.) | Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο μεστός, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο μεστός, etc.) |

#### Antonyms

* αμέστωτος (améstotos)
* άμεστος (ámestos)

#### Related terms

* see: μεστώνω (mestóno, “to ripen”)