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πολλοστός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολλοστός πολλοστή πολλοστόν

Structure: πολλοστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pollo/s, polu/s

Sense

  1. one of many, the smallest, least, in a very small degree
  2. after a very long time

Examples

  • εἴτ’ οὖν μία ἐστὶν εἴτε πλείουσ αἱ τοῦ τελείου καὶ μακαρίου ἀνδρόσ, αἱ ταύτασ τελειοῦσαι ἡδοναὶ κυρίωσ λέγοιντ’ ἂν ἀνθρώπου ἡδοναὶ εἶναι, αἱ δὲ λοιπαὶ δευτέρωσ καὶ πολλοστῶσ, ὥσπερ αἱ ἐνέργειαι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 72:3)

Synonyms

  1. one of many

  2. after a very long time

Related

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

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