Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὅσος

Pronoun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὅσος ὅση ὅσον

Structure: ὁς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: like Lat.

Sense

  1. (relative adjective) (often as anaphor to τόσος, or πᾶς, ἅπας) as much as, how much
  2. (followed by particles) (ὅσος ἄν) how ever great
  3. (ὅσος δή) how great, how ever many
  4. (ὁσοσοῦν) ever so small
  5. (ὅσοσπερ) even so great as, no greater than
  6. (adverbial usages) so far as, so much as
  7. (ὅσῳ, ὅσῳ περ, often with comparative) by how much
  8. (ἐν ὅσῳ) while

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 εἶδεν ὁ Θεὸσ τὰ πάντα, ὅσα ἐποίησε, καὶ ἰδοὺ καλὰ λίαν. καὶ ἐγένετο ἑσπέρα καὶ ἐγένετο πρωί̈, ἡμέρα ἕκτη. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 1:31)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ ἰδοὺ ἐπάγω τὸν κατακλυσμόν, ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν καταφθεῖραι πᾶσαν σάρκα, ἐν ᾗ ἐστι πνεῦμα ζωῆσ, ὑποκάτω τοῦ οὐρανοῦ. καὶ ὅσα ἐὰν ᾖ ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ, τελευτήσει. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 6:17)
  • καὶ ἐποίησε Νῶε πάντα, ὅσα ἐνετείλατο αὐτῷ Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ, οὕτωσ ἐποίησε. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 6:22)
  • καὶ ἐποίησε Νῶε πάντα, ὅσα ἐνετείλατο αὐτῷ Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 7:5)
  • καὶ πάντα, ὅσα ἔχει πνοὴν ζωῆσ, καὶ πᾶν, ὃ ἦν ἐπὶ τῆσ ξηρᾶσ, ἀπέθανε. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 7:22)

Synonyms

  1. so far as

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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