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πολλαπλάσιον (pollaplasion)

πολλαπλάσιον is an Ancient Greek form of πολλαπλάσιος, meaning “many times as large”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of πολλαπλασίων, “many times as large, multiple”.

Found 116 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Garrulitate 1: … ἀκούοντι δὲ τῶν λαλούντων. καὶ γὰρ ἂν ἀκούσῃ τι βραχύ, τῆς ἀδολεσχίας ὥσπερ ἄμπωτιν λαβούσης, τοῦτο παραχρῆμα πολλαπλάσιον ἀνταποδίδωσι. τὴν μὲν γὰρ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ στοὰν ἀπὸ μιᾶς φωνῆς πολλὰς ἀντανακλάσεις ποιοῦσαν ἑπτάφωνον καλοῦσι· τῆ …

All forms of πολλαπλάσιος (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.