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πηλίκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πηλίκος πηλίκη πηλίκον

Structure: πηλικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: interrog. of thli/kos, h(li/kos

Sense

  1. how great or large?
  2. of what age, of a certain age

Examples

  • καὶ εἶπα πρὸσ αὐτόν. ποῦ σὺ πορεύῃ̣ καὶ εἶπε πρόσ με. διαμετρῆσαι τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ τοῦ ἰδεῖν πηλίκον τὸ πλάτοσ αὐτῆσ ἐστι καὶ πηλίκον τὸ μῆκοσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Zachariae 2:6)
  • πηλίκον τι; (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 1:17)
  • πηλίκον οὖν ἐνόμιζε κακὸν εἶναι τὸ κερδαίνειν ἀδίκωσ ὁ καὶ δικαίωσ πλέον ἔχειν ἑτέρου πλεονεξίαν ἡγούμενοσ; (Plutarch, Comparison of Agis and Cleomenes and the Gracchi, chapter 1 4:2)
  • καὶ ὅταν εἰσ κρίσιν ἀνάγῃσ τεθνηκότων ἐνδόξων, βαρὺ δοκεῖ τὸ τοιοῦτον εἶναι, οἱο͂ν καίτοι πηλίκον ἂν στενάξαιεν οἱ πρόγονοι. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. how great or large?

Related

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

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