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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

  • καὶ μὴν πλαγία μὲν φάλαγξ ἐστὶν ἡ τὸ μῆκοσ τοῦ βάθουσ πολλαπλάσιον ἔχουσα, ὀρθία δέ, ὅταν ἐπὶ κέρωσ πορεύηται· (Arrian, chapter 26 1:1)
  • οὕτω δὲ αὖ τὸ βάθοσ τοῦ μήκουσ πολλαπλάσιον παρέχεται. (Arrian, chapter 26 2:1)
  • ἐνδιαιτᾶσθαι καὶ συμβιοῦν ἡμῖν πλέον ἔχουσαν, μᾶλλον δὲ πολλαπλάσιον, τὸ εὐφραῖνον ἢ τὸ λυποῦν· (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 3 3:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἂν ἀκούσῃ τι βραχύ, τῆσ ἀδολεσχίασ ὥσπερ ἄμπωτιν λαβούσησ, τοῦτο παραχρῆμα πολλαπλάσιον ἀνταποδίδωσι. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 1 2:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἂν ἀκούσῃ τι βραχύ, τῆσ ἀδολεσχίασ ὥσπερ ἄμπωτιν λαβούσησ, τοῦτο παραχρῆμα πολλαπλάσιον ἀνταποδίδωσι. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 1 6:1)

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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