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πενταπλάσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πενταπλάσιος πενταπλάσιᾱ πενταπλάσιον

Structure: πενταπλασι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. five-fold, five times as large as . .

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

  • Πλάτων δὲ τοὺσ Νόμουσ γράφων μέχρι μέν τινοσ ᾤετο δεῖν ἐᾶν, πλεῖον δὲ τοῦ πενταπλασίαν εἶναι τῆσ ἐλαχίστησ μηδενὶ τῶν πολιτῶν ἐξουσίαν εἶναι κτήσασθαι, καθάπερ εἴρηται καὶ πρότερον. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 135:2)

Synonyms

  1. five-fold

Related

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

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