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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

  • ἔτι δὲ θαυμάσειεν ἄν τισ καὶ τῆσ ὀροφῆσ ἐν τῷ εὐμόρφῳ τὸ ἀπέριττον κἀν τῷ εὐκόσμῳ τὸ ἀνεπίληπτον καὶ τὸ τοῦ χρυσοῦ ἐσ τὸ εὐπρεπὲσ σύμμετρον, ἀλλὰ μὴ παρὰ τὰσ χρείασ ἐπίφθονον, ἀλλ’ ὁπόσον ἂν καὶ γυναικὶ σώφρονι καὶ καλῇ ἀρκέσῃ ἐπισημότερον ἐργάσασθαι τὸ κάλλοσ, ἢ περὶ τῇ δειρῇ λεπτόσ τισ ὁρ́μοσ ἢ περὶ τῷ δακτύλῳ σφενδόνη εὔφοροσ ἢ ἐν τοῖν ὤτοιν ἐλλόβια ἢ πόρπη τισ ἢ ταινία τὸ ἄφετον τῆσ κόμησ συνδέουσα, τοσοῦτον τῇ εὐμορφίᾳ προστιθεῖσα ὅσον τῇ ἐσθῆτι ἡ πορφύρα· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 7:1)
  • εἰ μὲν γὰρ ὡσ ἀλλάξαι τι δυνάμενοσ τῶν ἐπικεκλωσμένων, ὀλίγον αἰτεῖσ ὁπόσον ἂν αἰτῇσ, εἰ δὲ ὡσ δέδοκται τῷ θεῷ πάντα ἔσται, τί σου δύναται ἡ μαντική; (Lucian, (no name) 37:2)
  • ὅσοι δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ πάλαι ῥύπου μὴ εἰσ βάθοσ παρεδέξαντο ὁπόσον δευσοποιὸν τοῦ φαρμάκου, τῶν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 8:12)
  • τοιγαροῦν ἐμπέπλησται πᾶσα πόλισ τῆσ τοιαύτησ ῥᾳδιουργίασ, καὶ μάλιστα τῶν Διογένη καὶ Ἀντισθένη καὶ Κράτητα ἐπιγραφομένων καὶ ὑπὸ τῷ κυνὶ ταττομένων, οἳ τὸ μὲν χρήσιμον ὁπόσον ἔνεστι τῇ φύσει τῶν κυνῶν, οἱο͂ν τὸ φυλακτικὸν ἢ οἰκουρικὸν ἢ φιλοδέσποτον ἢ μνημονικόν, οὐδαμῶσ ἐζηλώκασιν, ὑλακὴν δὲ καὶ λιχνείαν καὶ ἁρπαγὴν καὶ ἀφροδίσια συχνὰ καὶ κολακείαν καὶ τὸ σαίνειν τὸν διδόντα καὶ περὶ τραπέζασ ἔχειν, ταῦτα ἀκριβῶσ ἐκπεπονήκασιν. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 16:1)
  • ὁπόσον γὰρ δὴ ἐγὼ ἐξυφήνω, τοῦτο ἐν ἀκαρεῖ αὖθισ ἀναλύεται. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 21:2)

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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