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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

  • ὅσῳ μέγασ εἶ, τοσούτῳ ταπεινοῦ σεαυτόν, καὶ ἔναντι Κυρίου εὑρήσεισ χάριν. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 3:18)
  • ὅσῳ γὰρ καὶ ἀσθενόψυχοι καὶ πολυγονώτεραι ὑπάρχουσιν αἱ μητέρεσ, τοσοῦτον μᾶλλόν εἰσι φιλοτεκνότεραι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 15:5)
  • ὅσῳ γοῦν πᾶσιν ἐπισημότεροσ εἶναι δοκεῖσ, τοσούτῳ καταγελαστότεροσ ἂν δόξειασ εἶ ναι, ἀντιφωνοῦντοσ τοῦ νῦν βίου τῷ βιβλίῳ. (Lucian, Apologia 12:1)
  • εἰ δὲ τοῦτον ἀφεὶσ τὸν λόγον ὡσ οὐ πάνυ ἀξιόπιστον ἐκεῖνο λέγοιμι, μήτε ὑπὸ χρημάτων μήτε ὑπ̓ ἄλλησ τινὸσ ἐλπίδοσ τοιαύτησ δελεασθεὶσ ὑποστῆναι τὴν παροῦσαν συνουσίαν, ἀλλὰ τὴν σύνεσιν καὶ ἀνδρείαν καὶ μεγαλόνοιαν τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ θαυμάσασ ἐθελῆσαι κοινωνῆσαι πράξεων τῷ τοιούτῳ, δέδοικα μὴ πρὸσ τῇ ἐπιφερομένῃ κατηγορίᾳ κολακείασ αἰτίαν προσλαβὼν κᾆτα εὑρίσκωμαι ἥλῳ, φασίν, ἐκκρούων τὸν ἧλον, καὶ μείζονί γε τὸν σμικρότερον, ὅσῳ κολακεία τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων κακῶν τὸ δουλοπρεπέστατον εἶναι καὶ ταύτῃ χείριστον νενόμισται. (Lucian, Apologia 21:1)
  • ὅσῳ γὰρ ἂν ἐπὶ πλέον παρίω ἐσ ὑμᾶσ, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον ὀρέγομαι τοῦ πράγματοσ καὶ τὸ δίψοσ ἄσχετον ὑπεκκαίεταί μοι καὶ ἐοίκα οὐδ̓ ἐμπλησθήσεσθαί ποτε τοῦ τοιούτου ποτοῦ. (Lucian, Dipsades 14:4)

Synonyms

  1. so far as

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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