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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 λήψεται ὕσσωπον καὶ βάψει εἰσ τὸ ὕδωρ ἀνὴρ καθαρόσ, καὶ περιρρανεῖ ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ σκεύη καὶ ἐπὶ τὰσ ψυχάσ, ὅσαι ἂν ὦσιν ἐκεῖ, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν ἡμμένον τοῦ ὀστέου τοῦ ἀνθρωπίνου ἢ τοῦ τραυματίου ἢ τοῦ τεθνηκότοσ ἢ τοῦ μνήματοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 19:18)
  • ἀπὸ Ἀκκαρὼν Γεμνὰ καὶ πᾶσαι, ὅσαι εἰσὶ πλησίον Ἀσηδώθ, καὶ αἱ κῶμαι αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 15:46)
  • τὸν Ἡρακλέα οἱ Κελτοὶ Ὄγμιον ὀνομάζουσι φωνῇ τῇ ἐπιχωρίῳ, τὸ δὲ εἶδοσ τοῦ θεοῦ πάνυ ἀλλόκοτον γράφουσι, γέρων ἐστὶν αὐτοῖσ ἐσ τὸ ἔσχατον, ἀναφαλαντίασ, πολιὸσ ἀκριβῶσ ὅσαι λοιπαὶ τῶν τριχῶν, ῥυσὸσ τὸ δέρμα καὶ διακεκαυμένοσ ἐσ τὸ μελάντατον οἱοῖ̀ εἰσιν οἱ θαλαττουργοὶ γέροντεσ· (Lucian, Hercules, 1:1)
  • ὃσ γ]ᾶσ βασά[νοισιν Ἀχ]αιῶν α[ ε]ὔπ[ε]πλον [ ἠ[δὲ Πειράν]αν ἑλικοστέφα[νον κ[ούραν, ὅ]σαι τ’ ἄλλαι θεῶν ε̣ (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 9 7:6)
  • καὶ περὶ κυνῶν, ὅσαι ἰχνεύειν σοφαὶ καὶ ὅσαι πονηραί, καὶ ὅπωσ ἀπό τε τοῦ εἴδουσ καὶ τῶν ἔργων τεκμαίρεσθαι χρὴ ἑκατέρασ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 1 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. so far as

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