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ἑξαπλάσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑξαπλάσιος ἑξαπλάσιη ἑξαπλάσιον

Structure: ἑξαπλασι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. six times as large as

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ πρῶτον μὲν ἐλάχιστον ἀντὶ τοῦ ἑνὸσ τὰ ἓξ θέντεσ, ἐπεὶ πρῶτοσ ἥμισύ τε καὶ τρίτον ἔχει μέροσ, ἅπαντασ ἑξαπλασίουσ τοὺσ ὑποτεταγμένουσ ἐποίησαν, ὡσ ὑπογέγραπται, δεχομένουσ τὰσ μεσότητασ ἀμφοτέρασ καὶ τοῖσ διπλασίοισ καὶ τοῖσ τριπλασίουσ διαστήμασιν. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 16 6:2)
  • ἑξαπλασίουσ γὰρ ὄντασ τοὺσ Καρχηδονίουσ καὶ πάσαισ ταῖσ παρασκευαῖσ ἀνυπερβλήτουσ ὑπάρχοντασ ἐπαγγέλλεται νικήσειν, ἐναποκυβεύων ταῖσ τῶν μισθοφόρων ψυχαῖσ, οὐδὲ τοὺσ ὀφειλομένουσ μισθοὺσ πολλοῦ χρόνου διὰ τὴν ἀπορίαν ἀποδεδωκώσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvi, chapter 77 13:2)

Synonyms

  1. six times as large as

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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