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τριπλάσιον (triplasion)

τριπλάσιον is an Ancient Greek form of τριπλασίων, meaning “threefold, three times as large”.

It can also be a form of τριπλάσιος, “triple, three times as great”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 36: … ῶν Παμυλίων ἑορτὴν ἄγοντες, ὥσπερ εἴρηται, φαλλικὴν οὖσαν, ἄγαλμα προτίθενται καὶ περιφέρουσιν, οὗ τὸ αἰδοῖον τριπλάσιόν ἐστιν· ἀρχὴ γὰρ ὁ θεός, ἀρχὴ δὲ πᾶσα τῷ γονίμῳ πολλαπλασιάζει τὸ ἐξ αὑτῆς. τὸ δὲ πολλάκις εἰώθαμεν καὶ τρὶς λ …

All forms of τριπλασίων (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.