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παραπλήσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραπλήσιος παραπλήσιᾱ παραπλήσιον

Structure: παραπλησι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. coming near, nearly resembling, such-like, such-like, nearly equal, about equal
  2. perinde ac si . .

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

  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ τὸ μὲν εὐχαριστεῖν τῷ μεταβάλλοντι τὰ πράγματα χρόνῳ καὶ τὸ τοὺσ τὰ κράτιστα προαιρουμένουσ ἐπαινεῖν καὶ τὸ τὰ μέλλοντα ἐκ τῶν γεγονότων εἰκάζειν καὶ πάντα τὰ παραπλήσια τούτοισ, ἃ κἂν ὁ τυχὼν εἰπεῖν δύναιτο, ἀφήσω, ἐξ ὧν δ’ ἂν ἔτι μείζω λάβοι τὰ κρείττονα ἰσχύν, ταῦτα πειράσομαι λέγειν, ὑπόθεσιν τοῦ λόγου κοινὴν καὶ φιλάνθρωπον καὶ πλεῖστα δυναμένην ὠφελῆσαι λαβών. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De antiquis oratoribus, chapter 41)
  • ποιητικὰ δὲ ἥ τε κωλύμη καὶ ἡ πρέσβευσισ καὶ ἡ καταβοή καὶ ἡ ἀχθηδών καὶ ἡ δικαίωσισ καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 3 1:1)
  • τοιγάρτοι μυρίασ ἤδη τοῖσ τραγῳδοδιδασκάλοισ ἀφορμὰσ εἰσ τὰ δράματα τὸ τοιοῦτο παρέσχηται, τοὺσ Λαβδακίδασ καὶ τοὺσ Πελοπίδασ καὶ τὰ τούτοισ παραπλήσια· (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 1:4)
  • πολλοῖσ δὲ καὶ ἄλλοισ ταῦτα καὶ παραπλήσια τούτοισ εἴρηται, περὶ ὧν οὐδὲν δέομαι γράφειν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 13 2:2)
  • διενοεῖτό με ἀποστερεῖν τὰ χρήματα καὶ πρὸσ μὲν ἐμὲ προσεποιεῖτο ἀπορεῖν καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἔχειν παρόμοιά τε καὶ παραπλήσια ἀλλήλοισ ἐστίν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 20 1:3)

Related

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

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