# μᾶλλον
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

Comparative form of μάλα (mála, “very”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“strong, big”). Cognates include Latin melior (“better”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mâːl.lon/ → /ˈmal.lon/ → /ˈma.lon/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /mâːl.lon/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈmal.lon/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈmal.lon/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈmal.lon/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈma.lon/

### Adverb

μᾶλλον • (mâllon)
* (comparative) more, more strongly, rather
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.231
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.351
** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 129.31
** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 487B
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 63D
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 715D
** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 36D
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.370
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.300
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1406
** 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1001
** (strengthened)
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.700
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.322
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.470
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 18.22
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 10.88
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.386
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.429
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.104
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.50
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.114
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.71
** (joined to a second comparative)
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.243
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.31–32
*** 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 673
*** 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 279
*** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1210
*** 458 BCE, Euripides, Electra 222
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 79E
*** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 487B
*** 4th century BC, Isaeus, Collected Works 47
** (in the phrase μᾶλλον δέ (mâllon dé)) much more, rather
*** 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 633
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 65
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.87
** (in the phrase οὐδὲν μᾶλλον (oudèn mâllon))
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.79
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 87D
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 280
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.36
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.118
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.94
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.16.3
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.3.15

### References

* “μᾶλλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “μᾶλλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* μᾶλλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* μᾶλλον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* G3123 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. better idem, page 77.more idem, page 541.preferably idem, page 634.rather idem, page 673.