a learned borrowing from Greek meaning “best,” occurring either in direct loans (aristocratic), or in the formation of compound words: aristotype.
Origin: < Gk, comb. form of áristos best, superl. of ari- prob. a term specifying at first the upper class of society, the warrior caste; cf. Ares, perh. Aryan
[uh-ris-toh] 
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