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ὁπότερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁπότερος ὁπότερᾱ ὁπότερον

Structure: ὁποτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: correlat. to po/teros

Sense

  1. which of two, whether of the twain
  2. either of two
  3. in which of two ways

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ὁπότερος ὁποτέρᾱ ὁπότερον
Genitive ὁποτέρου ὁποτέρᾱς ὁποτέρου
Dative ὁποτέρῳ ὁποτέρᾱͅ ὁποτέρῳ
Accusative ὁπότερον ὁποτέρᾱν ὁπότερον
Vocative ὁπότερε ὁποτέρᾱ ὁπότερον
DualN/A/V ὁποτέρω ὁποτέρᾱ ὁποτέρω
G/D ὁποτέροιν ὁποτέραιν ὁποτέροιν
PluralNominative ὁπότεροι ὁπότεραι ὁπότερα
Genitive ὁποτέρων ὁποτερῶν ὁποτέρων
Dative ὁποτέροις ὁποτέραις ὁποτέροις
Accusative ὁποτέρους ὁποτέρᾱς ὁπότερα
Vocative ὁπότεροι ὁπότεραι ὁπότερα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὁπότερος ὁποτέρου ὁποτερώτερος ὁποτερωτέρου ὁποτερώτατος ὁποτερωτάτου
Adverb ὁποτέρως ὁποτερώτερον ὁποτερώτατα

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

  • ἐπιμελεῖται δὲ καὶ τῶν πεποιημένων τριήρων καὶ τῶν σκευῶν καὶ τῶν νεωσοίκων, καὶ ποιεῖται καινὰσ δὲ τριήρεισ ἢ τετρήρεισ, ὁποτέρασ ἂν ὁ δῆμοσ χειροτονήσῃ, καὶ σκεύη ταύταισ καὶ νεωσοίκουσ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 46 1:1)
  • ὀψοφάγοι δὲ καὶ γαστρίμαργοι καὶ οἰνόφλυγεσ τῷ πρὸσ ὁποτέρασ τροφῆσ ἀπόλαυσιν ἔχειν τὴν δύναμιν παθητικὴν παρὰ τὸν λόγον. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 69:2)
  • τοῖσ δὲ βασιλικὴν μὲν ἐδόκει καταστήσασθαι πολιτείαν ἅπασι, περὶ δὲ τοῦ μέλλοντοσ ἄρξειν στάσισ ἐνέπιπτεν ἐξ ὁποτέρασ ἔσται τάξεωσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 57 5:2)
  • ἐξ ὁποτέρασ δ’ ἂν πόλεωσ οἱ κρατήσαντεσ τῶν ἀντιπάλων γένωνται, ταύτῃ συγχωρήσαιμεν ἄρχειν τῆσ ἑτέρασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 11 16:2)
  • ἐξ ὁποτέρασ δ’ αὐτῶν καὶ εὐπειθέστεροι καὶ αἰδημονέστεροι καὶ ὧν δεῖ ἐγκρατέστεροι ἄνδρεσ ἀποτελοῦνται, ὁ βουλόμενοσ καὶ ταῦτα ἐπισκοπείσθω. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 17:2)

Synonyms

  1. which of two

  2. either of two

  3. in which of two ways

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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