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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

  • ἐπεὶ δεκαγώνου ἰσοπλεύρου πλευρά ἐστιν ἡ ΒΓ, πενταπλασίων ἄρα ἡ ΑΓΒ περιφέρεια τῆσ ΒΓ περιφερείασ· (Euclid, Elements, book 13, type Prop198)
  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ ῥητή ἐστιν ἡ τῆσ σφαίρασ διάμετροσ, καί ἐστι δυνάμει πενταπλασίων τῆσ ἐκ τοῦ κέντρου τοῦ ΕΖΗΘΚ κύκλου, ῥητὴ ἄρα ἐστὶ καὶ ἡ ἐκ τοῦ κέντρου τοῦ ΕΖΗΘΚ κύκλου· (Euclid, Elements, book 13, type Prop510)
  • Πόρισμα Ἐκ δὴ τούτου φανερόν, ὅτι ἡ τῆσ σφαίρασ διάμετροσ δυνάμει πενταπλασίων ἐστὶ τῆσ ἐκ τοῦ κέντρου τοῦ κύκλου, ἀφ’ οὗ τὸ εἰκοσάεδρον ἀναγέγραπται, καὶ ὅτι ἡ τῆσ σφαίρασ διάμετροσ σύγκειται ἔκ τε τῆσ τοῦ ἑξαγώνου καὶ δύο τῶν τοῦ δεκαγώνου τῶν εἰσ τὸν αὐτὸν κύκλον ἐγγραφομένων. (Euclid, Elements, book 13, type Prop515)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἡ τῆσ σφαίρασ διάμετροσ δυνάμει πενταπλασίων τῆσ ἐκ τοῦ κέντρου τοῦ κύκλου, ἀφ’ οὗ τὸ εἰκοσάεδρον ἀναγέγραπται. (Euclid, Elements, book 13, type Prop642)

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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