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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

  • ἰδοὺ γέ τοι ὑπ’ ἀσχολίασ τοσαύτασ ἑώλουσ δίκασ φυλάττομεν ἀποκειμένασ ὑπ’ εὐρῶτοσ ἤδη καὶ ἀραχνίων διεφθαρμένασ, καὶ μάλιστα ὁπόσαι ταῖσ ἐπιστήμαισ καὶ τέχναισ πρὸσ ἀνθρώπουσ τινὰσ συνεστᾶσιν, πάνυ παλαιὰσ ἐνίασ αὐτῶν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 3:2)
  • τὰσ μὲν ἄλλασ δίκασ εἰσ τὴν αὔριον ὑπερβαλώμεθα, τήμερον δὲ κληρῶμεν τὰσ τοιαύτασ ὁπόσαι τέχναισ ἢ βίοισ ἢ ἐπιστήμαισ πρὸσ ἄνδρασ εἰσὶν ἐπηγγελμέναι. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 13:12)
  • ὃ δὲ πᾶσιν ἐπανθεῖ τούτοισ, ἡ χάρισ, μᾶλλον δὲ πᾶσαι ἅμα ὁπόσαι Χάριτεσ καὶ ὁπόσοι Ἔρωτεσ περιχορεύοντεσ, τίσ ἂν μιμήσασθαι δύναιτο ; (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 9:2)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ ᾤμην ταῖσ γυναιξὶ μόναισ χαλεπήν σε εἶναι, ὁπόσαι ἂν ὁμιλήσωσί μοι. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:3)
  • ὁπόσαι δ’ ἐξαπατῶσιν παραβαίνουσί τε τοὺσ ὁρ́κουσ τοὺσ νενομισμένουσ κερδῶν οὕνεκ’ ἐπὶ βλάβῃ, ἢ ψηφίσματα καὶ νόμον ζητοῦσ’ ἀντιμεθιστάναι, τἀπόρρητά τε τοῖσιν ἐχθροῖσ τοῖσ ἡμετέροισ λέγουσ’, ἢ Μήδουσ ἐπάγουσι γῇ κερδῶν οὕνεκ’ ἐπὶ βλάβῃ, ἀσεβοῦσιν ἀδικοῦσίν τε τὴν πόλιν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Parodos, lyric 2:2)

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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