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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

  • οὐδὲν γὰρ οὔτε κοινὸν οὔτ’ ἴδιον ἔσχεν οὔτ’ ἐν τοῖσ ἰδίοισ οὔτ’ ἐν τοῖσ δημοσίοισ ἀγῶσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖσ Λυσίου παραπλήσιοσ ἔστιν ὅπου γίνεται καὶ τοῖσ Ὑπερείδου καὶ τοῖσ Δημοσθένουσ λόγοισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 4 2:7)
  • προοιμιάζεται γὰρ ὁμοίωσ ἐκείνῳ, καὶ δι’ ὅλου τοῦ λόγου παραπλήσιοσ μεμένηκε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 5 1:4)
  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ ὁ περὶ] τῶν διαθηκῶν ν[όμο]σ παραπλήσιοσ τούτοισ ἐστίν· (Hyperides, Speeches, 17:1)
  • καὶ ἄλλοσ δὲ τίσ φησι τῷ Σαρδαναπάλλῳ παραπλήσιοσ, ὑποτιθέμενοσ καὶ οὗτοσ τοῖσ μὴ σωφρονοῦσι τοιάδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 14 3:4)
  • "καὶ γὰρ περὶ τὰσ δωρεὰσ ἦν παραπλήσιοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:31)

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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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