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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

  • εἴπερ ἄρα τι τῶν λόγων, οὓσ πολλάκισ εἰρήκαμεν πρὸσ ἑτέρουσ, εἰκόσ ἐστι καὶ ἡμῖν ὄφελοσ ἐν καιρῷ γενέσθαι, καὶ μὴ καθῆσθαι μηδ’ ἐγκεκλεῖσθαι πολλαπλασίασ ταῖσ ἡδοναῖσ ἐκείναισ λύπασ ἀντιδιδόντασ. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 3 4:1)
  • ἃσ γὰρ ἐν τῷ ἑκκαιδεκάτῳ τῶν ἀξόνων ὁρίζει τιμὰσ τῶν ἐκκρίτων ἱερείων, εἰκὸσ μὲν εἶναι πολλαπλασίασ, ἄλλωσ δὲ κἀκεῖναι πρὸσ τὰσ νῦν εὐτελεῖσ εἰσιν. (Plutarch, , chapter 23 3:4)
  • κατέστησεν δ’ εἰσ ἑκάτερον μέροσ τῆσ μηχανῆσ τέτταρασ καὶ τούτων ἑκάστῃ συνῆψεν στοὰν μίαν εἰσ τὸ δύνασθαι μετ’ ἀσφαλείασ ἐπιτελεῖν τὸ προσταττόμενον τοὺσ εἰσιόντασ τε καὶ πάλιν ἐξιόντασ, κριοφόρουσ δὲ δύο πολλαπλασίασ τοῖσ μεγέθεσιν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 95 1:2)
  • οὕτω γὰρ μεγάλην πόλιν μίαν οὐ ῥᾳδίωσ οὔτε ἐν Ἕλλησιν οὔτε ἐν βαρβάροισ εὑρήσεισ, δοκούσασ δὲ πολλὰσ καὶ πολλαπλασίασ τῆσ τηλικαύτησ. (Plato, Republic, book 4 66:3)
  • πολλὰ γὰρ πλεονεκτήσειν ἐν ταῖσ στενοχωρίαισ τοὺσ ὀλίγοισ σκάφεσι διαγωνιζομένουσ πρὸσ πολλαπλασίασ ναῦσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 12 27:2)

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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