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ὀκταπλάσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀκταπλάσιος ὀκταπλάσιᾱ ὀκταπλάσιον

Structure: ὀκταπλασι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. eightfold

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

  • εἰ δὲ μή, πατούμενοι ὑπὸ τοῦ γέροντοσ ὀκταπλάσιον χέζομεν. (Aristotle, Prologue 2:18)
  • οὔτε δὲ τὴν διάνοιαν ἐκεῖνοι συμβάλλειν δυνάμενοι καὶ περὶ τὴν τοῦ βωμοῦ κατασκευὴν γελοῖα πάσχοντεσ ἑ̔κάστησ γὰρ τῶν τεσσάρων πλευρῶν διπλασιαζομένησ, ἔλαθον τῇ αὐξήσει τόπον στερεὸν ὀκταπλάσιον ἀπεργασάμενοι, δι’ ἀπειρίαν ἀναλογίασ ἣ τῷ μήκει διπλάσιον παρέχεταἰ, Πλάτωνα τῆσ ἀπορίασ ἐπεκαλοῦντο βοηθόν. (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 7 1:8)

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

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