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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 ἤνεγκαν ἕκαστοσ, ὧν ἔφερεν ἡ καρδία αὐτῶν, καὶ ὅσοισ ἔδοξε τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτῶν, ἤνεγκαν ἀφαίρεμα Κυρίῳ εἰσ πάντα τὰ ἔργα τῆσ σκηνῆσ τοῦ μαρτυρίου καὶ εἰσ πάντα τὰ κάτεργα αὐτῆσ, καὶ εἰσ πάσασ τὰσ στολὰσ τοῦ ἁγίου. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 35:21)
  • καὶ ἐπιθήσουσιν ἐπ’ αὐτὸ πάντα τὰ σκεύη, ὅσοισ λειτουργοῦσιν ἐπ’ αὐτῷ ἐν αὐτοῖσ, καὶ τὰ πυρεῖα καὶ τὰσ κρεάγρασ καὶ τὰσ φιάλασ καὶ τὸν καλυπτῆρα καὶ πάντα τὰ σκεύη τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου. καὶ ἐπιβαλοῦσιν ἐπ’ αὐτὸ κάλυμμα δερμάτινον ὑακίνθινον, καὶ διεμβαλοῦσι τοὺσ ἀναφορεῖσ αὐτοῦ. καὶ λήψονται ἱμάτιον πορφυροῦν καὶ συγκαλύψουσι τὸν λουτῆρα καὶ τὴν βάσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐμβαλοῦσιν αὐτὰ εἰσ κάλυμμα δερμάτινον ὑακίνθινον καὶ ἐπιθήσουσιν ἐπὶ ἀναφορεῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 4:14)
  • ὅσοισ δ̓ ἂν βούλωνται βοηθεῖν καὶ βασιλεύειν, βασιλεύουσιν. οὓσ δ̓ ἂν βούλωνται, μεθιστῶσι. καὶ ὑψώθησαν σφόδρα. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 8:13)
  • οὔπω κεῖθεν ἐήν δολιχὸσ πλόοσ, οὐδέ γαλήνησ δηρὸν ἐρεσσομένων ἠκούετο δοῦποσ ἐρετμῶν, καὶ χθονὸσ εὐκόλποισιν ἐπ’ ἠιόνεσσι βαλόντεσ πείσματα νηὸσ ἔδησαν, ὅσοισ ἁλὸσ ἔργα μεμήλει. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1112)
  • τοῦτο γενόμενον εὔφραινε μὲν πολλούσ, ὅσοι παρῆσαν χρηστοί, ἐλύπει δὲ ἐκείνουσ ὅσοισ ἀποκήρυξισ υἱοῦ ἡδίων ἀναλήψεωσ. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. so far as

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