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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

  • οὕτω ταῖσ τε ποικίλαισ ἐπανθεῖ τὸ ποικίλον, καὶ ὅσαισ ἁπλῆ χρόα ἐστίν, ἀποστίλβει καὶ αὕτη, καὶ ἐστιν ἥδιστον θέαμα ἀνδρὶ θηρευτικῷ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 3 7:2)
  • ἀλλ̓ αἱ βαρυκέφαλοι μόναι πονηραί, καὶ ὅσαισ παχέα τὰ ῥύγχη καὶ μὴ ἐσ ὀξὺ ἀλλ̓ ἀθρόωσ ἀπολήγοντα. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 4 4:4)
  • κράτισται δὲ αἱ φιλανθρωπόταται καὶ ὅσαισ οὐκ ἔστιν ξένον ὄψισ ἀνθρώπου οὐδενόσ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 7 3:2)
  • ἐπὶ τούτῳ μέντοιπηδήσεισ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἵππουσ ὡσ ἔνι ποικιλωτάτασ ποιοῦνται, ὅσαισ ἰδέαισ καὶ ὅσοισ σχήμασιν ἀναβαίνεται ἵπποσ ὑπὸ ἱππέωσ· (Arrian, chapter 43 6:1)
  • ξυνευχόμεσθα τέλεα μὲν πόλει τέλεα δὲ δήμῳ τάδ’ εὔγματα γενέσθαι, τὰ δ’ ἄρισθ’ ὅσαισ προσήκει νικᾶν λεγούσαισ· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Parodos, lyric 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. so far as

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