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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

  • οἱο͂ν εἰ τὸ διπλάσιον πρῶτον τῶν πολλαπλασίων, οὐκ ἐνδέχεται τὸ πολλαπλάσιον τὸ κοινῇ κατηγορούμενον εἶναι χωριστόν· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 99:1)
  • τοῦτο αἴτιον αὐτῷ γενέσθαι φησὶ τοῦ μὴ διαλυθῆναι τοὺσ στρατιώτασ κατὰ πόλεισ, ἀλλὰ συμμεῖναι καὶ καταφρονῆσαι τῶν ἐναντίων πολλαπλασίων ὄντων, ἐν δὲ Σιλβίῳ φησὶν οἰκέτην Ποντίου θεοφόρητον ἐντυχεῖν αὐτῷ λέγοντα παρὰ τῆσ Ἐνυοῦσ κράτοσ πολέμου καὶ νίκην ἀπαγγέλλειν εἰ δὲ μὴ σπεύσειεν, ἐμπεπρήσεσθαι τὸ Καπιτώλιον ὃ καὶ συμβῆναι τῆσ ἡμέρασ ἐκείνησ ἧσ ὁ ἄνθρωποσ προηγόρευσεν ἦν δὲ αὕτη πρὸ μιᾶσ νωνῶν Κυντιλίων, ἃσ νῦν Ιοὐλίασ καλοῦμεν. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 27 6:1)
  • ὥστε οὐκ ἂν εἰκότωσ ἡμᾶσ αἰτιῷσθε, ἐπεὶ τῶν Κόνωνοσ, τῶν ὁμολογουμένων δικαίωσ ἀποφανθῆναι ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ ἐκείνου, πολλαπλασίων δοκούντων πλεῖν ἢ τρίτον μέροσ φαίνεται τὰ Ἀριστοφάνουσ. (Lysias, Speeches, 56:1)
  • ἅμα δὲ τῶν ἐλεφάντων ἐπιόντων κατὰ μέτωπον καὶ τῶν ἱππέων διὰ τὸ πλῆθοσ πανταχῇ περιχεομένων, ἔτι δὲ τῶν πεζῶν πολλαπλασίων καὶ κρειττόνων ὄντων ταῖσ ἀρεταῖσ καὶ τὴν στάσιν ὑπερδέξιον ἐχόντων πολὺσ θόρυβοσ καὶ φόβοσ κατεῖχε τοὺσ περὶ τὸν Ἀλκέταν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 45 2:1)
  • Μενίσκοσ μὲν γὰρ ὁ τῶν μισθοφόρων ἡγεμών, ἀνὴρ καὶ συνέσει καὶ τόλμῃ διαφέρων, προσπεσὼν διὰ τῆσ διόδου πρὸσ τὸ τεῖχοσ καὶ μετὰ τῶν περὶ ἑαυτὸν λαμπρῶσ ἀγωνισάμενοσ ἐξεβιάσθη, πολλαπλασίων ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ἐπεξελθόντων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 23 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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