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ὁπόσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁπόσος ὁπόση ὁπόσον

Structure: ὁπος (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. as many as
  2. as much as, as great as, as far as
  3. how great or much soever

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ὁπόσος ὁπόση ὁπόσον
Genitive ὁπόσου ὁπόσης ὁπόσου
Dative ὁπόσῳ ὁπόσῃ ὁπόσῳ
Accusative ὁπόσον ὁπόσην ὁπόσον
Vocative ὁπόσε ὁπόση ὁπόσον
DualN/A/V ὁπόσω ὁπόσᾱ ὁπόσω
G/D ὁπόσοιν ὁπόσαιν ὁπόσοιν
PluralNominative ὁπόσοι ὁπόσαι ὁπόσα
Genitive ὁπόσων ὁποσῶν ὁπόσων
Dative ὁπόσοις ὁπόσαις ὁπόσοις
Accusative ὁπόσους ὁπόσᾱς ὁπόσα
Vocative ὁπόσοι ὁπόσαι ὁπόσα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὁπόσος ὁπόσου ὁποσώτερος ὁποσωτέρου ὁποσώτατος ὁποσωτάτου
Adverb ὁπόσως ὁποσώτερον ὁποσώτατα

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

  • οὐ φόρουσ λέγω οὐδὲ δασμούσ, ὁπόσοι παρὰ τῶν ἀρχομένων ἐπέτειοι φοιτῶσιν, ἀλλ̓ ἔστι βασιλεῖ μισθὸσ μέγιστοσ ἔπαινοι καὶ ἡ παρὰ πᾶσιν εὔκλεια καὶ τὸ ἐπὶ ταῖσ εὐεργεσίαισ προσκυνεῖσθαι, καὶ εἰκόνεσ δὲ καὶ νεῲ καὶ τεμένη, ὁπόσα παρὰ τῶν ἀρχομένων ἔχουσι, μισθοὶ καὶ ταῦτά εἰσιν ὑπὲρ τῶν φροντίδων καὶ προνοίασ, ἣν εἰσφέρονται προσκοποῦντεσ ἀεὶ τὰ κοινὰ καὶ βελτίω ποιοῦντεσ. (Lucian, Apologia 31:2)
  • ὁ δ’ οὖν πρεσβύτησ ὁ πενθῶν οὑτωσὶ ταῦτα πάντα ὁπόσα εἴρηκα καὶ ἔτι τούτων πλείονα οὔτε τοῦ παιδὸσ ἕνεκα τραγῳδεῖν ἐοίκεν ‐ οἶδε γὰρ οὐκ ἀκουσόμενον οὐδ’ ἂν μεῖζον ἐμβοήσῃ τοῦ Στέντοροσ ‐ οὔτε μὴν αὑτοῦ· (Lucian, (no name) 15:1)
  • καίτοι ταῦτα πάντα ὁπόσα εἶπον, τὸ θάλποσ, τὸ δίψοσ, ἡ ἐρημία, τὸ μηδὲν ἔχειν ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ λαβεῖν, ἧττον ὑμῖν δυσχερῆ εἶναι δόξει τοῦ λεχθησομένου, καὶ δἰ ὃ φευκτέα πάντωσ ἡ χώρα ἐκείνη· (Lucian, Dipsades 4:1)
  • ὁπόσα τε γίνεται πράγματα ἀντὶ σωμάτων ἢ σώματα ἀντὶ πραγμάτων, καὶ ἐφ’ ὧν ἐνθυμημάτων τε καὶ νοημάτων αἱ μεταξὺ παρεμπτώσεισ πολλαὶ γινόμεναι διὰ μακροῦ τὴν ἀκολουθίαν κομίζονται, τά τε σκολιὰ καὶ πολύπλοκα καὶ δυσεξέλικτα καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τὰ συγγενῆ τούτοισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 2 3:2)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ μάγου τινὸσ εἶναι λέγοντοσ καὶ ἐπῳδὰσ ἔχειν ἰσχυράσ, ὡσ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν ἅπαντασ ἀναπεισθῆναι παρέχειν αὐτῷ ὁπόσα βούλεται, Μὴ θαύμαζε, ἔφη· (Lucian, (no name) 23:1)

Synonyms

  1. as many as

  2. as much as

  3. how great or much soever

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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