διπλάσιον (diplasion)

διπλάσιον is an Ancient Greek form of διπλάσιος, meaning “double”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 166 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.76.3: … εἰ τὸ μέγα τεῖχος ἁλίσκοιτο, τοῦτ’ ἀντέχοι, καὶ δέοι τοὺς ἐναντίους αὖθις πρὸς αὐτὸ χοῦν καὶ προχωροῦντας ἔσω διπλάσιόν τε πόνον ἔχειν καὶ ἐν ἀμφιβόλῳ μᾶλλον γίγνεσθαι.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 12.26: διπλάσιον δʼ ὤνασας, ἔχων δʼ ἐπίμετρον ἀπῆνθον.

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi meretricii 13.4: … οὐκ ἂν ἔτι σε οὐδὲ προσβλέψειέ τις οὕτω χαίροντα τῷ λύθρῳ, οὐχ ὅπως συμπίοι ἢ συγκοιμηθείη. ἔγωγ' οὖν ἄπειμι. Διπλάσιον ἀπόλαβε τὸ μίσθωμα. Οὐκ ἂν ὑπομείναιμι ἀνδροφόνῳ συγκαθεύδειν. Μὴ δέδιθι, ὦ Ὑμνί· ἐν Παφλαγόσιν ἐκεῖνα πέπρακ …

All forms of διπλάσιος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.