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πολύς

First/Second declension Adjective; 불규칙 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύς πολλή πολύ

Structure: πολλ (Stem) + ου (Ending)

Etym.: the ionic declension pollo/s, h/, o/n is retained by the attic in all cases, except the nom. and acc. masc. and neut. Hom. uses both ionic and attic forms.

Sense

  1. many
  2. In general of extreme size or degree

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 συνήγαγεν Ἰωσὴφ σῖτον ὡσεὶ τὴν ἄμμον τῆσ θαλάσσησ πολὺν σφόδρα, ἕωσ οὐκ ἠδύνατο ἀριθμηθῆναι, οὐ γὰρ ἦν ἀριθμόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 41:49)
  • λαὸν μέγαν καὶ πολὺν καὶ εὐμήκη, υἱοὺσ Ἐνάκ, οὓσ σὺ οἶσθα καὶ σὺ ἀκήκοασ. τίσ ἀντιστήσεται κατὰ πρόσωπον υἱῶν Ἐνάκ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 9:2)
  • καὶ ἐν χρήμασι πολλοῖσ ἀπήλθοσαν εἰσ τοὺσ οἴκουσ αὐτῶν, καὶ κτήνη πολλὰ σφόδρα καὶ ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον καὶ σίδηρον καὶ ἱματισμὸν πολὺν διείλαντο τὴν προνομὴν τῶν ἐχθρῶν μετὰ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 22:8)
  • καὶ ἐκ τῆσ Μασβὰκ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν πόλεων τοῦ Ἀδρααζὰρ ἔλαβεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ Δαυὶδ χαλκὸν πολὺν σφόδρα. ἐν αὐτῷ ἐποίησε Σολομῶν τὴν θάλασσαν τὴν χαλκῆν καὶ τοὺσ στύλουσ καὶ τοὺσ λουτῆρασ καὶ πάντα τὰ σκεύη. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 8:8)
  • ὁ δὲ δοῦλόσ σου ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ λαοῦ σου, ὃν ἐξελέξω λαὸν πολύν, ὃσ οὐκ ἀριθμηθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 3:8)

Synonyms

  1. many

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