πλείων

See also: πλειών

Ancient Greek

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

more, comparative degree of πολύς (polús)
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 378
1. (in the plural, with the definite article) the greater number, the mass or crowd
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.673
(in neuter)
1. (as a noun) more
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.19
2. (as an adverb) more, rather
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.100
  1. (with numerals) more
    - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.1,6
  2. (comedy) πλεῖν ἢ μαίνομαι (pleîn ḕ maínomai, “more than to madness”)
    - 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 103,751
  3. as an adverb with another comparative
  4. the plural πλείω is also used like πλέον

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

Third declension of πλείων; πλεῖον (Attic)

Number	Singular		Dual		Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	πλείων pleíōn	πλεῖον pleîon	πλείονε pleíone	πλείονε pleíone	πλείονες / πλείους pleíones / pleíous	πλείονᾰ / πλείω pleíonă / pleíō
Genitive	πλείονος pleíonos	πλείονος pleíonos	πλειόνοιν pleiónoin	πλειόνοιν pleiónoin	πλειόνων pleiónōn	πλειόνων pleiónōn
Dative	πλείονῐ pleíonĭ	πλείονῐ pleíonĭ	πλειόνοιν pleiónoin	πλειόνοιν pleiónoin	πλείοσῐ / πλείοσῐν pleíosĭ(n)	πλείοσῐ / πλείοσῐν pleíosĭ(n)
Accusative	πλείονᾰ / πλείω pleíonă / pleíō	πλεῖον pleîon	πλείονε pleíone	πλείονε pleíone	πλείονᾰς / πλείους pleíonăs / pleíous	πλείονᾰ / πλείω pleíonă / pleíō
Vocative	πλεῖον pleîon	πλεῖον pleîon	πλείονε pleíone	πλείονε pleíone	πλείονες / πλείους pleíones / pleíous	πλείονᾰ / πλείω pleíonă / pleíō
Derived forms	Adverb		Comparative		Superlative
Derived forms	πλεῖον pleîon		—		—
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Ionic and Doric have the following contracted forms: πλεῦν, πλεῦνος, πλεῦνες. Attic has πλεῖν.

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“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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- further idem, page 350.
- more idem, page 541.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1206