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πολλαπλάσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολλαπλάσιος πολλαπλάσιᾱ πολλαπλάσιον

Structure: πολλαπλασι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: polu/s

Sense

  1. many times as many, many times more or larger
  2. many times as many as . . , many times more or larger than . .

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

  • οὔτε οὖν ὃν κατέστησεν ἀτιμάσαι ἐδόκει οὔτ’ ἐκείνοισ πλείουσ φόρουσ ἐπιβαλεῖν ἢ αὐτοὶ ἔταξαν, χρήματα δὲ πολλαπλάσια αὐτὸσ ἐλάμβανεν. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 128:2)
  • καίτοι εἰ ὅσοι κακῶσ πεπόνθασιν ὑπὸ τῶν ὑδάτων τῶν ταύτῃ ῥεόντων ἐμοὶ λήξονται δίκασ, οὐδὲ πολλαπλάσια γενόμενα τὰ ὄντ’ ἐξαρκέσειεν ἄν μοι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 25:4)
  • ἀλλά τοι εἰ καὶ πάντα ταῦτα πεποίηκε καὶ ἄλλα τούτων πολλαπλάσια, οὐδεὶσ ἂν δύναιτο αὐτῆσ ἀνασχέσθαι τὴν χαλεπότητα. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 2 8:2)
  • οὐδὲ γεγενημένων ἐπελάθοντο, καιρὸν δὲ νομίσαντεσ ἐπιτήδειον ἔχειν ὧν ἐξέτισαν Ῥωμαίοισ χρημάτων πολλαπλάσια παρ’ αὐτῶν ἀπολαβεῖν, ὀλίγοι μὲν τὸ πρῶτον καὶ ἀφανῶσ ἐξιόντεσ ἐληίζοντο τὴν ὅμορον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 33 2:1)
  • Ἐξ ὧν χρὴ εἰδέναι ὅτι ἔν γε τοῖσ αὐτέοισι χωρίοισιν οὐδὲν δεινὸν τὸ μὴ οὐ τὰ πολλαπλάσια αὐτέων ἐπιτυγχάνειν, ἢν ἐκμαθών τισ αὐτὰ κρίνειν τε καὶ λογίζεσθαι ὀρθῶσ ἐπίστηται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., PROGNWSTIKON, 25.4)

Synonyms

  1. many times as many

Related

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

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