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πολλαπλήσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολλαπλήσιος πολλαπλήσιᾱ πολλαπλήσιον

Structure: πολλαπλησι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ionic for pollapla/sios.

Sense

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

  • ὁρῶντεσ δὲ σφέασ οἵ τε ἄλλοι στρατιῶται οἱ Ξέρξεω καὶ οἱ στρατηγοὶ ἐπιπλέοντασ νηυσὶ ὀλίγῃσι, πάγχυ σφι μανίην ἐπενείκαντεσ ἀνῆγον καὶ αὐτοὶ τὰσ νέασ, ἐλπίσαντεσ σφέασ εὐπετέωσ αἱρήσειν, οἰκότα κάρτα ἐλπίσαντεσ, τὰσ μέν γε τῶν Ἑλλήνων ὁρῶντεσ ὀλίγασ νέασ, τὰσ δὲ ἑωυτῶν πλήθεί̈ τε πολλαπλησίασ καὶ ἄμεινον πλεούσασ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 10 2:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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