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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 Ἰεσβί, ὃσἦν ἐν τοῖσ ἐκγόνοισ τοῦ Ραφὰ καὶ ὁ σταθμὸσ τοῦ δόρατοσ αὐτοῦ τριακοσίων σίκλων ὁλκὴ χαλκοῦ καὶ αὐτὸσ περιεζωσμένοσ κορύνην, καὶ διενοεῖτο τοῦ πατάξαι τὸν Δαυίδ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 21:16)
  • ἔπειτα καταλέγουσιν ὅσην χώραν ἐπῆλθον· (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 19 3:1)
  • εὔχομαι πᾶσι καὶ πάσαισ, ὅσην εὔνοιαν ἔχουσα διατελῶ τῇ τε πόλει καὶ πᾶσιν ὑμῖν, τοσαύτην ὑπάρξαι μοι παρ’ ὑμῶν εἰσ τουτονὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα, ἔπειθ’ ὅπερ ἐστὶ μάλιστα δίκαιον , τοῦτο παραστῆσαι τοὺσ θεοὺσ ὑμῖν, τὸν μὲν ἀντίδικον σιωπᾶν κελεύειν, ἐμὲ δὲ ὡσ προῄρημαι καὶ βεβούλημαι τὴν κατηγορίαν ἐᾶσαι ποιήσασθαι. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 26:2)
  • παρακαλεῖ τε τὴν τῶν Ἑλλήνων εὔνοιαν οἰκείαν ποιεῖν τῇ πόλει, μεγίστην ἡγουμένουσ μερίδα πρὸσ εὐδαιμονίαν, καὶ πολεμικοὺσ μὲν εἶναι ταῖσ παρασκευαῖσ καὶ ταῖσ μελέταισ, εἰρηνικοὺσ δὲ τῷ μηδένα μηδὲν ἀδικεῖν, διδάσκων ὡσ οὔτε πρὸσ πλοῦτον οὔτε πρὸσ δόξαν οὔθ’ ὅλωσ πρὸσ εὐδαιμονίαν οὐθὲν ἂν συμβάλοιτο τηλικαύτην δύναμιν, ὅσην ἀρετὴ καὶ τὰ μέρη ταύτησ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 7 1:2)
  • ὃ καὶ πάντων ἐστὶ δεινότατον, ὅτι τοῖσ μὲν ἐκφέρουσιν εἰσ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ Ἕλληνασ τὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἁμαρτήματα τοσαύτην ἔχετε χάριν, ὅσην οὐδὲ τοῖσ εὖ ποιοῦσι, πρὸσ δὲ τοὺσ ἐπιπλήττοντασ καὶ νουθετοῦντασ ὑμᾶσ οὕτω θιατίθεσθε δυσκόλωσ, ὥσπερ πρὸσ τοὺσ κακόν τι τὴν πόλιν ἐργαζομένουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 16 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. so far as

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