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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

  • προσελθούσησ γὰρ ἄλλησ δυνάμεωσ τοῖσ Οὐολούσκοισ τε καὶ Αἰκανοῖσ ἐκ τῶν πέριξ χωρίων οὐ διὰ μακροῦ ὄντων, ἐπαρθεὶσ ὁ στρατηγὸσ αὐτῶν, ὅτι καὶ πενταπλάσιοι τῶν πολεμίων ἦσαν οἱ σφέτεροι, τήν τε παρεμβολὴν τῶν Ῥωμαίων οὐκ ἐν ἐχυρῷ οὖσαν ὁρῶν κράτιστον ὑπέλαβεν εἶναι καιρὸν ἐπιχειρεῖν αὐτοῖσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 58 2:1)

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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