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τριπλάσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριπλάσιος τριπλάσιᾱ τριπλάσιον

Structure: τριπλασι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. thrice as many, thrice as much, thrice as great as
  2. thrice as much

Examples

  • ὥστε ἤδη τινὲσ καὶ τριπλασίονα τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἐν τῷ μήκει τασσομένων ἐποίησαν πρὸσ τὸ βάθοσ, οὕτωσ οἰόμενοι ἐσ ἀκριβὲσ τετράγωνον καταστήσειν στήσειν τὸ σχῆμα, ὡσ τριπλάσιον τὸ μῆκοσ τοῦ ἵππου ὑπὲρ τὸ πλάτοσ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τὸ κατὰ τοὺσ ὤμουσ ἐπέχον, ὥστε ἐννέα κατὰ μῆκοσ ἐν τῷ μετώπῳ τάσσοντεσ τρεῖσ ἐν τῷ βάθει ἐπ̣̔ (Arrian, chapter 16 17:3)
  • καὶ ναὶ μὰ Δί’ ὄρνιν τριπλάσιον Κλεωνύμου παρέθηκεν ἡμῖν· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 3:18)
  • τριπλάσιον κεκράξομαί σου. (Aristotle, Agon, proagon2)
  • μασώμενοσ γὰρ τῷ μὲν ὀλίγον ἐντίθησ, αὐτὸσ δ’ ἐκείνου τριπλάσιον κατέσπακασ. (Aristotle, Lyric-Scene, iambics25)
  • καὶ ναὶ μὰ Δί’ ὄρνιν τριπλάσιον Κλεωνύμου παρέθηκεν ἡμῖν ὄνομα δ’ ἦν αὐτῷ φέναξ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 6 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. thrice as many

  2. thrice as much

Related

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

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