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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

  • τὸ μὲν οὖν περιττὸν ἔχουσι πάντεσ οἱ τοῦ Σωκράτουσ λόγοι καὶ τὸ κομψὸν καὶ τὸ καινοτόμον καὶ τὸ ζητητικόν, καλῶσ δὲ πάντα ἴσωσ χαλεπόν, ἐπεὶ καὶ τὸ νῦν εἰρημένον πλῆθοσ δεῖ μὴ λανθάνειν ὅτι χώρασ δεήσει τοῖσ τοσούτοισ Βαβυλωνίασ ἤ τινοσ ἄλλησ ἀπεράντου τὸ πλῆθοσ, ἐξ ἧσ ἀργοὶ πεντακισχίλιοι θρέψονται, καὶ περὶ τούτουσ γυναικῶν καὶ θεραπόντων ἕτεροσ ὄχλοσ πολλαπλάσιοσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 104:1)
  • μὴ τοίνυν μηδὲ ὑμεῖσ αὑτοὺσ ὁμονοεῖν λέγετε, πρὶν ἂν ὑμῖν μάλιστα μὲν πολλαπλάσιοσ διέλθῃ χρόνοσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 22:4)
  • Πολλαπλάσιοσ δὲ ὁ μείζων τοῦ ἐλάσσονοσ, ὅταν καταμετρῆται ὑπὸ τοῦ ἐλάσσονοσ. (Euclid, Elements, book 7, type Def5)
  • Ἀριθμοὶ ἀνάλογόν εἰσιν, ὅταν ὁ πρῶτοσ τοῦ δευτέρου καὶ ὁ τρίτοσ τοῦ τετάρτου ἰσάκισ ᾖ πολλαπλάσιοσ ἢ τὸ αὐτὸ μέροσ ἢ τὰ αὐτὰ μέρη ὦσιν. (Euclid, Elements, book 7, type Def21)
  • ἀλλὰ πολλαπλάσιόσ ἐστιν ὁ τῆσ τῶν ἐμβρύων τελειώσεωσ χρόνοσ τῆσ τῶν σιτίων πέψεωσ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 211)

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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