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ἡλίκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡλίκος ἡλίκη ἡλίκον

Structure: ἡλικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from h(=lic

Sense

  1. as big as
  2. as old as
  3. extraordinarily great

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ἡλίκος ἡλίκη ἡλίκον
Genitive ἡλίκου ἡλίκης ἡλίκου
Dative ἡλίκῳ ἡλίκῃ ἡλίκῳ
Accusative ἡλίκον ἡλίκην ἡλίκον
Vocative ἡλίκε ἡλίκη ἡλίκον
DualN/A/V ἡλίκω ἡλίκᾱ ἡλίκω
G/D ἡλίκοιν ἡλίκαιν ἡλίκοιν
PluralNominative ἡλίκοι ἡλίκαι ἡλίκα
Genitive ἡλίκων ἡλικῶν ἡλίκων
Dative ἡλίκοις ἡλίκαις ἡλίκοις
Accusative ἡλίκους ἡλίκᾱς ἡλίκα
Vocative ἡλίκοι ἡλίκαι ἡλίκα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἡλίκος ἡλίκου ἡλικότερος ἡλικοτέρου ἡλικότατος ἡλικοτάτου
Adverb ἡλίκως ἡλικότερον ἡλικότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ταῖσ δὲ πολυσυλλάβοισ, ἡλίκαι ποτ’ ἂν ὦσιν, ἡ τὸν ὀξὺν τόνον ἔχουσα μία ἐν πολλαῖσ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ βαρείαισ ἔνεστιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1129)
  • οὔτε γὰρ ὁρατὸν οὐδὲν οὔτε γευστὸν οὔτε ἁπτὸν ἐκστάσεισ ἐπιφέρει καὶ ταραχὰσ καὶ πτοίασ τηλικαύτασ ἡλίκαι καταλαμβάνουσι τὴν ψυχὴν κτύπων τινῶν καὶ πατάγων καὶ ἢχων τῇ ἀκοῇ προσπεσόντων. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 2 4:2)
  • "ἰδοῦ, ἡλίκαι εἰσὶ καὶ πῶσ ὀξεῖαι. (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 25:1)

Synonyms

  1. as big as

  2. as old as

  3. extraordinarily great

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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