Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἐφορμούντων δὲ τῶν πολεμίων πολλαπλασίαισ τριήρεσι τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἐφ’ ἡμέρασ τινὰσ ἠνάγκάζε συνέχειν ἑαυτοὺσ ἐν ταῖσ ναυσὶ τοὺσ στρατιώτασ, οὐ δυναμένουσ ἐκπλεῦσαι· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 5 2:1)
  • ἔσεσθαι γὰρ πελάγιον τὸν ἀγῶνα, καὶ τοὺσ Πέρσασ διὰ τὴν εὐρυχωρίαν ῥᾳδίωσ καταπονήσεσθαι τὰσ ὀλίγασ ναῦσ ταῖσ πολλαπλασίαισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 12 27:4)
  • Φορμίων δὲ τῇ προγεγενημένῃ νίκῃ φρονηματισθεὶσ ἐτόλμησεν ἐπιθέσθαι ταῖσ πολεμίαισ ναυσὶν οὔσαισ πολλαπλασίαισ· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xii, chapter 48 4:1)

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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