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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

  • καὶ οἱ μὲν ὑποδησάμενοι ἐμβάτασ τῆσ τύχησ χορηγούσησ ἐντραγῳδοῦσιν ἡμῖν, οἱ πολλοὶ δὲ πεζῇ καὶ χαμαὶ βαδίζομεν δυνάμενοι ἄν, εὖ ἴσθι, μὴ χεῖρον αὐτῶν ὑποκρίνεσθαι καὶ διαβαίνειν, εἴ τισ καὶ ἡμᾶσ ἐνεσκεύασε παραπλησίωσ ἐκείνοισ. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 1 1:9)
  • "τὸ ὄξοσ τινὰ τῶν ἐκτὸσ συνιστάνει, παραπλησίωσ δὲ καὶ τὰ ἐν κοιλίᾳ, τὰ δ’ ἐν τῷ ὄγκῳ διαλύει, διὰ τὸ δηλονότι διαφόρουσ ἐν ἡμῖν μίγνυσθαι χυμούσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 76 2:1)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ κινάραν ὠνόμασε παραπλησίωσ ἡμῖν Σώπατροσ ὁ Πάφιοσ γεγονὼσ τοῖσ χρόνοισ κατ’ Ἀλέξανδρον τὸν Φιλίππου, ἐπιβιοὺσ δὲ καὶ ἑώσ τοῦ δευτέρου τῆσ Αἰγύπτου βασιλέωσ, ὡσ αὐτὸσ ἐμφανίζει ἔν τινι τῶν συγγραμμάτων αὑτοῦ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 841)
  • παραπλησίωσ δὲ καὶ Ξενοφῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 7 2:4)
  • ὅπωσ δὲ μὴ δόξῃ κοινὸσ εἶναι πρὸσ πάντασ τοὺσ παραπλησίωσ αὐτῷ τὴν εὔνοιαν ἐνδεδειγμένουσ, ἐπήνεγκεν τῶν πάντων οὐ τόσσον ὀδύρομαι ἀχνύμενόσ περ, ὡσ ἑνὸσ ὅστε μοι ὕπνον ἀπεχθαίρει καὶ ἐδωδήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 16 2:2)

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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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