A.morning meal, breakfast, twice in Hom., “ἐντύνοντ᾽ ἄ. ἅμ᾽ ἠοῖ” Od.16.2, cf. Il.24.124; “ἄριστα, δεῖπνα, δόρπα θ᾽ 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; “ἀπ᾽ ἀρίστου μέχρι δείλης” Arist. HA619a15. [α_; contr. from α^（y）ερι-στον, cf. Goth. air, OHG. ēr 'early', Avest. ayar[schwa] 'day'; also α_（y）ερ- in ἦρι, ἠέριος; -στο- from -d-to-, root ed- 'eat'.]
ἄριστον , τό,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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