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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

  • ἐφ’ οὓσ συστραφέντεσ οἱ Ῥόδιοι μάχην συνῆψαν καὶ πολλαπλάσιοι γενόμενοι τοὺσ μὲν ἀνεῖλον, τοὺσ δ’ ἐπανελθεῖν εἰσ τοὐπίσω συνηνάγκασαν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 87 1:3)
  • οἱ δὲ περὶ Δεινοκράτην φυγάδεσ ὁρῶντεσ τὴν τῶν πολεμίων ὁρμὴν ἄσμενοι κατήντησαν εἰσ τὴν μάχην, ὄντεσ πολλαπλάσιοι· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 89 2:1)
  • νῦν δὲ ὁπότε καὶ πεῖραν ἤδη ἔχετε αὐτῶν ὅτι οὐ θέλουσι καὶ πολλαπλάσιοι ὄντεσ μὴ δέχεσθαι ὑμᾶσ, τί ἔτι ὑμῖν προσήκει τούτουσ φοβεῖσθαι; (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 2 18:3)
  • ἔπειτα δὲ οἱ τότε ἐκκόψαντεσ τῶν τοξοτῶν καὶ ἀκοντιστῶν τὰσ ἀκροβολίσεισ νῦν οὗτοι ἔρχονται καὶ ἄλλοι ὅμοιοι τούτοισ πολλαπλάσιοι· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 21:2)
  • συντάξεισ δὲ τῶν ἀναγκαίων παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέωσ τοῖσ μὲν δικασταῖσ ἱκαναὶ πρὸσ διατροφὴν ἐχορηγοῦντο, τῷ δ’ ἀρχιδικαστῇ πολλαπλάσιοι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 75 4:2)

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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