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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

  • κάμινον φυσῶν ἐν ἔργοισ καύματοσ, τριπλασίωσ ἥλιοσ ἐκκαίων ὄρη. ἀτμίδασ πυρώδεισ ἐκφυσῶν καὶ ἐκλάμπων ἀκτῖνασ ἀμαυροῖ ὀφθαλμούσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 43:4)
  • 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 λόγοσ ἐστὶ τῆσ μὲν διὰ τεσσάρων ἐπίτριτοσ, τῆσ δὲ διὰ πέντε ἡμιόλιοσ, διπλάσιοσ δὲ τῆσ διὰ πασῶν, τῆσ δὲ διὰ πασῶν καὶ διὰ πέντε τριπλάσιοσ, τῆσ δὲ δὶσ διὰ πασῶν τετραπλάσιοσ. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 108)
  • τρία τῶν τεσσάρων ἐν ᾧ τὸ διὰ τεσσάρων, καὶ τριπλάσιοσ ὁ πρὸσ τὰ τρία τῶν ἐννέα ἐν ᾧ τὸ διὰ πασῶν καὶ διὰ πέντε, καὶ τετραπλάσιοσ ὁ πρὸσ τὰ δύο τῶν η’ ἐν ᾧ τὸ δὶσ διὰ πασῶν· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 14 5:1)
  • οὐκ ἄρα ἐστὶν ὁ κύλινδροσ τοῦ κώνου μείζων ἢ τριπλάσιοσ. (Euclid, Elements, book 12, type Prop281)
  • Λέγω δή, ὅτι οὐδὲ ἐλάττων ἐστὶν ἢ τριπλάσιοσ ὁ κύλινδροσ τοῦ κώνου. (Euclid, Elements, book 12, type Prop282)
  • Εἰ γὰρ δυνατόν, ἔστω ἐλάττων ἢ τριπλάσιοσ ὁ κύλινδροσ τοῦ κώνου· (Euclid, Elements, book 12, type Prop283)

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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