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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

  • "γίνεται δὲ ἐν ὀστρέῳ τινὶ παραπλησίῳ ταῖσ πίνναισ, πλὴν ἐλάττονι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 454)
  • ἐν μὲν γὰρ τῷ αἰεὶ παραπλησίῳ αἱ Ῥᾳθυμίαι ἔνεισιν, ἐν δὲ τῷ μεταβαλλομένῳ αἱ ταλαιπωρίαι τῷ σώματι καὶ τῇ ψυχῇ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xxiii.9)
  • ἀμφοτέρω γὰρ καὶ κατὰ τοῦτο παραπλησίω ἐστόν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 47:1)
  • Εἰ δ’, ὡσ ἐγὼ κελεύω, χεῖρα κατεαγυῖαν κατατείνοι τισ, ἐπιστρέψει μὲν τὸ ὀστέον ἐσ ἰθὺ, τὸ κατὰ τὸν σμικρὸν δάκτυλον, τὸ ἐσ τὸν ἀγκῶνα τεῖνον, ἰθυωρίην δὲ ἕξει τὰ νεῦρα τὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ καρποῦ πρὸσ τοῦ βραχίονοσ τὰ ἄκρα τείνοντα‧ ἀναλαμβανομένη δὲ ἡ χεὶρ ἐν παραπλησίῳ σχήματι ἔσται, ἐν ᾧ περ καὶ ἐπιδεομένη, ἄπονοσ μὲν ὁδοιπορέοντι, ἄπονοσ δὲ κατακειμένῳ καὶ ἀκάματοσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 3.11)
  • καὶ τὸ "ἄρρεν" καὶ ὁ "ἀνὴρ" ἐπὶ παραπλησίῳ τινὶ τούτῳ ἐστί, τῇ ἄνῳ ῥοῇ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 186:2)

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

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