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πενταπλάσιον (pentaplasion)

πενταπλάσιον is an Ancient Greek form of πενταπλάσιος, meaning “five-fold; five times as large as”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of πενταπλασίων, “five-fold”.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Appianus of Alexandria, Civil Wars 4.12.100: … νεκα, ἐπιδώσομεν εὐθὺς ἀπὸ τοῦδε τοῦ βήματος στρατιώτῃ μὲν χιλίας καὶ πεντακοσίας δραχμὰς Ἰταλικάς, λοχαγῷ δὲ πενταπλάσιον καὶ χιλιάρχῃ δὲ τὸ ἀνάλογον.

Euclid, Elementa 13.prop.1: … ω μεῖζον τμῆμα τὸ ΑΓ, καὶ ἐκβεβλήσθω ἐπʼ εὐθείας τῇ ΓΑ εὐθεῖα ἡ ΑΔ, καὶ κείσθω τῆς ΑΒ ἡμίσεια ἡ ΑΔ· λέγω, ὅτι πενταπλάσιόν ἐστι τὸ ἀπὸ τῆς ΓΔ τοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς ΔΑ. ἀναγεγράφθωσαν γὰρ ἀπὸ τῶν ΑΒ, ΔΓ τετράγωνα τὰ ΑΕ, ΔΖ, καὶ καταγεγράφθω ἐν …

All forms of πενταπλάσιος (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.