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

  • Καὶ μᾶλλον μὲν μὴ σμήχεσθαι‧ ἢν δὲ σμήχηται, θερμῷ χρέεσθαι αὐτέῳ καὶ πολλαπλασίῳ ἢ ὡσ νομίζεται σμήγματι, καὶ προσκαταχέεσθαι μὴ ὀλίγῳ, καὶ ταχέωσ μετακαταχέεσθαι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 18.3)
  • λαμπρὰ δ’ Ἡρώδῃ δῶρα προσενεγκὼν δέλεαρ ὧν ἐθηρᾶτο καὶ παραχρῆμα πολλαπλασίω λαβὼν οὐδὲν ἡγεῖτο τὴν καθαρὰν δόσιν, εἰ μὴ δι’ αἵματοσ ἐμπορεύσεται τὴν βασιλείαν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 727:1)

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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