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πολυπλάσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυπλάσιος πολυπλάσιᾱ πολυπλάσιον

Structure: πολυπλασι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: late for pollapla/sios, Anth.

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

  • ὃν δὲν πρότερον ἐσκύλευσεν ἅγιον νεὼν καλλίστοισ ἀναθήμασι κοσμήσειν καὶ τὰ ἱερὰ σκεύη πολυπλάσια πάντα ἀποδώσειν, τὰσ δὲ ἐπιβαλλούσασ πρὸσ τὰσ θυσίασ συντάξεισ ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων προσόδων χορηγήσειν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 9:16)
  • καὶ στάλικασ καὶ πτηνὰ λαγωβόλα σοὶ τάδε Μείδων, Φοῖβε, σὺν ἰξευταῖσ ἐκρέμασεν καλάμοισ, ἔργων ἐξ ὀλίγων ὀλίγην δόσιν ἢν δέ τι μεῖζον δωρήσῃ, τίσει τῶνδε πολυπλάσια. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1521)

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

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