ἄριστον
ariston
morning meal, breakfast
Appears 143 times across Aristotle's works.
Frequency by work
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Politics 40 ▸
Open Politics › Book II 5 ▸
Chapter 2 1261a10–1261b15
Chapter 3 1261b16–1262a24
Chapter 11 1272b24–1273b26
Book III 10 ▸
Chapter 7 1279a22–1279b10
Chapter 11 1281a39–1282b13
Chapter 15 1285b33–1286b40
Chapter 16 1287a1–1287b35
Chapter 18 1288a32–1288b6
Book IV 7 ▸
Chapter 7 1293a35–1293b21
Chapter 8 1293b22–1294a29
Chapter 11 1295a25–1296b12
Book VII 17 ▸
Chapter 3 1325a16–1325b32
Chapter 8 1328a21–1328b23
Chapter 13 1331b24–1332b11
Chapter 14 1332b12–1334a10
Chapter 15 1334a11–1334b28
Book VIII 1 ▸
Chapter 2 1337a33–1337b23
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Nicomachean Ethics 35 ▸
Open Nicomachean Ethics › Book I 8 ▸
Chapter 2 1094a18–1094b10
Chapter 12 1101b10–1102a4
Book II 2 ▸
Chapter 6 1106a14–1107a27
Book III 4 ▸
Chapter 3 1112a18–1113a14
Chapter 8 1116a15–1117a28
Book IV 2 ▸
Chapter 1 1119b22–1122a17
Book V 1 ▸
Book VI 3 ▸
Chapter 12 1143b18–1144a36
Book VII 6 ▸
Chapter 12 1152b25–1153a35
Book VIII 1 ▸
Chapter 7 1158b11–1159a11
Book IX 1 ▸
Book X 7 ▸
Chapter 4 1174a13–1175a20
Chapter 6 1176a30–1177a11
Chapter 9 1179a33–1181b23
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Eudemian Ethics 26 ▸
Open Eudemian Ethics › Book I 10 ▸
Book II 12 ▸
Chapter 1 1218b31–1220a37
Chapter 10 1225b17–1227b11
Book III 1 ▸
Chapter 1 1228a23–1230a33
Book VII 3 ▸
Chapter 12 1244b1–1246a25
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Metaphysics 14 ▸
Open Metaphysics › Book Α 1 ▸
Book Η 1 ▸
Book Λ 9 ▸
Chapter 7 1072a19–1073a13
Chapter 8 1073a14–1074b14
Chapter 9 1074b15–1075a10
Chapter 10 1075a11–1076a4
Book Μ 1 ▸
Book Ν 2 ▸
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On the Heavens 6 ▸
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Rhetoric 6 ▸
Open Rhetoric › Book I 2 ▸
Book II 2 ▸
Chapter 21 1394a19–1395b20
Chapter 22 1395b21–1397a6
Book III 2 ▸
Chapter 3 1405b35–1406b19
Chapter 15 1416a4–1416b15
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History of Animals 5 ▸
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Progression of Animals 2 ▸
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On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 2 ▸
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De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 2 ▸
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De Mundo 1 ▸
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Generation of Animals 1 ▸
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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1 ▸
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Parts of Animals 1 ▸
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Poetics 1 ▸
Dictionary (LSJ)
ἄριστον, τό, A. morning meal, breakfast, twice in Hom., ἐντύνοντʼ ἄ. ἅμʼ ἠοῖ Od. 16.2, cf. Il. 24.124; ἄριστα, δεῖπνα, δόρπα θʼ αἱρεῖσθαι τρίτα A. Fr. 182, cf. Ag. 331: later, breakfast was called ἀκράτισμα, and ἄριστον was the midday meal, our luncheon, cf. Th. 4.90, 7.81; ἄ. αἱρεῖσθαι, ποιεῖσθαι, Hdt. 3.26, 6.78; ἀπʼ ἀρίστου μέχρι δείλης Arist. HA 619a15. [ᾱ; contr. from ᾰ (y) ερι-στον, cf. Goth. air, OHG. ēr ‘early’, Avest. ayarə ‘dayʼ; also ᾱ (y) ερ- in ἦρι, ἠέριος; -στο- from -d-to-, root ed- ‘eat’.]
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