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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

  • οἱ δ’ ἔφασαν ἐλάσσονοσ ἢ ὅσου ἂν τοῖσ ἐμπόροισ ἐπώλουν. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 121:2)
  • ἀποβλέψασ δὲ δὴ καὶ ἐσ τὴν Πελοπόννησον, εἶτα τὴν Κυνουρίαν ^ γῆν ἰδὼν ἀνεμνήσθην περὶ ὅσου χωρίου, κατ’ οὐδὲν Αἰγυπτίου φακοῦ πλατυτέρου, τοσοῦτοι ἔπεσον Ἀργείων καὶ Λακεδαιμονίων μιᾶσ ἡμέρασ. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 18:5)
  • Ὠνησάμην >ὅσου φήσ. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 17:25)
  • Ὅσου μὲν ἐγὼ χρυσοῦ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4:7)
  • καὶ σὺ καὶ πρὸσ τοῦτο ὁρ́α ὅσου δεῖ τοῦ χρόνου, οὗ ἑκὼν παρῆκα δεδιὼσ μὴ σὺ ἀγανακτήσῃσ, καίτοι τό γε μέγιστόν τε ἅμα καὶ ἀναγκαιότατον ἐν τοῖσ τοιούτοισ, λέγω δὴ τοῖσ ἀδήλοισ τε καὶ ἀμφιβόλοισ, ἓν τοῦτό ἐστιν, οἶμαι· (Lucian, 139:7)

Synonyms

  1. so far as

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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