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ὅλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὅλος ὅλη ὅλον

Structure: ὁλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = qolo/s

Sense

  1. whole, entire, perfect, complete
  2. complete, utter
  3. generally, on the whole
  4. (with negative): at all
  5. actually

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • καὶ ἀπεκρίθη Σαοὺλ καὶ εἶπεν. οὐχὶ ἀνδρὸσ υἱὸσ Ἰεμιναίου ἐγώ εἰμι τοῦ μικροῦ σκήπτρου φυλῆσ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ τῆσ φυλῆσ τῆσ ἐλαχίστησ ἐξ ὅλουσ σκήπτρου Βενιαμίν̣ καὶ ἱνατί ἐλάλησασ πρὸσ ἐμὲ κατὰ τὸ ρῆμα τοῦτο̣ (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 9:21)
  • εἰρηκὼσ δὲ καὶ περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων ὅτι δεινότερόσ ἐστιν οἰκονομῆσαι Λυσίου καὶ ὅλουσ τοὺσ λόγουσ καὶ τὰ μέρη αὐτῶν καὶ οὐδὲν ἔξω ποιῶν τῆσ τέχνησ, ᾗ μετὰ ταῦτα πολλῇ ὁ Δημοσθένησ ἐχρήσατο, βούλομαι καὶ τὰσ ὑπὲρ τούτων παρασχέσθαι πίστεισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 141)
  • καὶ μετ’ ὀλίγον αἰτοῦσιν οὐκ ὀβολοὺσ οὐδὲ δραχμὰσ ὀλίγασ, ἀλλὰ πλούτουσ ὅλουσ, ὥστε τίσ ἔμποροσ τοσοῦτον ἀπὸ τοῦ φόρτου ἐμπολήσειεν ἂν ὅσον τούτοισ φιλοσοφία ἐσ χρηματισμὸν συντελεῖ; (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 20:2)
  • Ἡράκλεισ, μακρόν τινα τὸν ὄνειρον λέγεισ, εἴ γε ’σαυτὸν ἔλαθεσ κατακοιμηθεὶσ παρασάγγασ ὅλουσ. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 1:9)
  • Ὅλουσ ἀρτιγενείουσ. (Lucian, 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. whole

  2. complete

  3. generally

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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