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ἡμιόλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμιόλιος ἡμιόλιᾱ ἡμιόλιον

Structure: ἡμιολι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o(/los

Sense

  1. containing one and a half, half as much again, half as large again as, half as much again as
  2. a ship with one and a half banks of oars

Examples

  • "καὶ λόγοσ ἐστὶ τῆσ μὲν διὰ τεσσάρων ἐπίτριτοσ, τῆσ δὲ διὰ πέντε ἡμιόλιοσ, διπλάσιοσ δὲ τῆσ διὰ πασῶν, τῆσ δὲ διὰ πασῶν καὶ διὰ πέντε τριπλάσιοσ, τῆσ δὲ δὶσ διὰ πασῶν τετραπλάσιοσ. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 108)
  • καὶ γὰρ διπλάσιοσ λόγοσ ἐστὶν ὁ τῶν δύο πρὸσ τὸ ἓν ἐν ᾧ τὸ διὰ πασῶν, καὶ ἡμιόλιοσ ὁ πρὸσ τὰ δύο τῶν τριῶν ἐν ᾧ τὸ διὰ πέντε, καὶ ἐπίτριτοσ ὁ πρὸσ; (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 14 3:2)
  • ὧν οἱ ἄκροι ὁ μὲν ἐπίτριτοσ ὁ δ’ ἡμιόλιοσ φανήσεται· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 22 9:2)
  • "τῆσ γὰρ μέσησ ἡ παραμέση κατὰ τὸν ἐπόγδοον λόγον ὑπερέχει, πάλιν ἡ νεάτη τῆσ ὑπάτησ διπλασία ἐστίν ἡ δὲ παραμέση τῆσ ὑπάτησ ἡμιόλιοσ, ἡ δὲ μέση ἐπίτριτοσ πρὸσ ὑπάτην ἡρ́μοσται. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 2319)
  • τρία γὰρ πρὸσ δύ’ ἐστίν, ἐκείνων δὲ ὁ μὲν ἓν πρὸσ ἕν, ὁ δὲ δύο πρὸσ ἕν, ἔχεται δὲ τῶν λόγων τούτων ὁ ἡμιόλιοσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 8 4:7)

Synonyms

  1. a ship with one and a half banks of oars

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

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