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πλέον (pleon)

πλέον is an Ancient Greek form of πλείων, meaning “more, greater”. It is the accusative singular neuter comparative adjective.

It can also be a form of πλέος, “full”.

Found 2,143 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.888: οἱ δὲ κατηφήσαντες ἐμεῦ πλέον ἀσχαλόωσιν.

Pindar, Nemean 7.20: ἅμα νέονται. ἐγὼ δὲ πλέονʼ ἔλπομαι

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos 1.6: … ἐστι δύο, τό τε ἀρρενικὸν καὶ τὸ θῆλυ, τῶν δὲ προκειμένων δυνάμεων ἡ τῆς ὑγρᾶς οὐσίας μάλιστα θηλυκὴ τυγχάνει?̔πλέον γὰρ ἐγγίνεται καθʼ ὅλου τοῦτο τὸ μέρος πᾶσι τοῖς θήλεσι, τὰ δʼ ἄλλα μᾶλλον τοῖς ἄρρεσιν̓, εἰκότως τὴν μὲν σελ …

All forms of πλείων (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.