Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ὦ ξένε Ἀθηναῖε, εἶδεσ γάρ μου τὸν πλοῦτον καὶ τοὺσ θησαυροὺσ καὶ ὅσοσ ἄσημοσ ^ χρυσόσ ἐστιν ἡμῖν καὶ τὴν ἄλλην πολυτέλειαν, εἰπέ μοι, τίνα ἡγῇ τῶν ἁπάντων ἀνθρώπων εὐδαιμονέστατον εἶναι. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 10:1)
  • χρυσὸσ ὅσοσ παρ’ ἡμῖν; (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 12:8)
  • τοσοῦτοσ εἰσ κακίαν οὗτοσ, ὅσοσ εἰσ ἀρετὴν ἐκεῖνοσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 1:3)
  • εἶτα, ὡσ ἐγγὺσ τοῦ χωρίου ἐγένετο, προελθὼν εἰσ αὐτὸ ἔλαβεν ἐκ τῶν ἐνόντων ἱερῶν ὅσοσ ἐνῆν κοῖλοσ ἄργυροσ· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 90:3)
  • καὶ τὸν γηγενῆ Τιτυόν, Ἡράκλεισ ὅσοσ· (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 14:8)

Synonyms

  1. so far as

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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