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ἡμιόλιον (hemiolion)

ἡμιόλιον is an Ancient Greek form of ἡμιόλιος, meaning “containing one and a half, half as much”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Defectu Oraculorum 36: … πρώτη δʼ ἴσον δυναμένη τοῖς πρὸ αὑτῆς δυσὶ τὸ κάλλιστον τῶν ὀρθογωνίων τριγώνων συνίστησι πρώτη δὲ ποιεῖ τὸν ἡμιόλιον λόγον. οὐ γὰρ ἴσως οἰκεῖα ταῦτα τοῖς ὑποκειμένοις πράγμασιν· ἀλλʼ ἐκεῖνο μᾶλλον, τὸ φύσει διαιρετικὸν τοῦ ἀρι …

All forms of ἡμιόλιος (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.