Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πλέων ‎(pléōn)

Adjective

πλείων • ‎(pleíōn) m, f ‎(neuter πλεῖον); third declension

1. more, comparative of πολύς ‎(polús)
   • Hesiod, Works and Days 378
   1. (in the plural, with the definite article) the greater number, the mass or crowd
      • Homer, Iliad 5.673
2. (in neuter)
   1. (as a noun) more
      • Herodotus, Histories 2.19
   2. (as an adverb) more, rather
      • Herodotus, Histories 8.100
      1. (with numerals) more
         • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.1,6
      2. (comedy) πλεῖν ἢ μαίνομαι ‎(pleîn ḕ maínomai, “more than to madness”)
         • Aristophanes, The Frogs 103,751
      3. as an adverb with another comparative
      4. the plural πλείω is also used like πλέον

Usage notes

Homer and Hesiod use πλείων ‎(pleíōn) or πλέων ‎(pléōn) as verse requires.

Declension

Synonyms

• (more): πλεῖστος ‎(pleîstos)
• (crowd): οἱ πολλοί ‎(hoi polloí)

Antonyms

• (more (noun)): ἔλαττον ‎(élatton)

References

• πλείων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πλείων in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πλείων in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πλείων» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «πλείων» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4119”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • further idem, page 350.
  • more idem, page 541.