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πλεῖον (pleion)

πλεῖον is an Ancient Greek form of πλείων, meaning “more, greater”.

It can also be a form of πλέως, “full”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 512 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.472: ἦ, καὶ ἐπισχόμενος πλεῖον δέπας ἀμφοτέρῃσιν

Euripides, Hippolytus 641: εἴη φρονοῦσα πλείον’ ἢ γυναῖκα χρή.

Euripides, Suppliants 451: ὡς τῷ τυράννῳ πλείονʼ ἐκμοχθῇ βίον;

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.