ὅσος
Pronoun;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ὅσος
ὅση
ὅσον
Structure:
ὁς
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Etym.: like Lat.
Sense
- (relative adjective) (often as anaphor to τόσος, or πᾶς, ἅπας) as much as, how much
- (followed by particles) (ὅσος ἄν) how ever great
- (ὅσος δή) how great, how ever many
- (ὁσοσοῦν) ever so small
- (ὅσοσπερ) even so great as, no greater than
- (adverbial usages) so far as, so much as
- (ὅσῳ, ὅσῳ περ, often with comparative) by how much
- (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.
- τιμὴ γὰρ πόρνησ ὅση καὶ ἑνὸσ ἄρτου, γυνὴ δὲ ἀνδρῶν τιμίασ ψυχὰσ ἀγρεύει. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 6:30)
- δοκεῖ δὲ τραγικώτερον κεχρῆσθαι εὐθὺσ ἐν ἀρχῇ τῇ μεταφορᾷ, πολιτικώτερον δὲ ὑπὸ Δημοσθένουσ εἰρῆσθαι τὸ αὐτὸ νόημα ἐν τῷ τῆσ παραπρεσβείασ εὐθὺσ ἐν ἀρχῇ, ἔχον οὕτωσ ὅση μέν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, σπουδὴ καὶ παραγγελία γέγονε καὶ τὰ ἑξῆσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Libri secundi de antiquis oratoribus reliquiae, chapter 21)
- ιιι τὴν παράταξιν ὅση γεγένηται π. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Libri secundi de antiquis oratoribus reliquiae, chapter 23)
- ἐπεὶ δὲ εἰσ ἄνδρασ τελεῖν ἤρξαντο καὶ κατεῖδον τὴν αἰδῶ, ὅση παρὰ τῶν πολλῶν ἐστιν τοῖσ ἑταίροισ τοῖσ ἐμοῖσ, καὶ ὡσ ἀνέχονται οἱ ἄνθρωποι τὴν παρρησίαν αὐτῶν καὶ χαίρουσιν θεραπευόμενοι καὶ συμβουλεύουσι πείθονται καὶ ἐπιτιμώντων ὑποπτήσσουσι, ταῦτα πάντα τυραννίδα οὐ μικρὰν ἡγοῦντο εἶναι. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 12:6)
- οὐ γὰρ οἶσθα, ὦ Κυνίσκε, ἡλίκασ μετὰ τὸν βίον οἱ πονηροὶ τὰσ κολάσεισ ὑπομένουσιν, ἢ ἐν ὅσῃ οἱ χρηστοὶ εὐδαιμονίᾳ διατρίβουσιν; (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 17:2)
