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τριπλάσιος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: triplasios

Principal Part: τριπλάσιος τριπλάσια 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 ἐπ῾; (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

명사

형용사

동사

부사

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

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