ὅσος
Pronoun;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ὅσος
ὅση
ὅσον
Structure:
ὁς
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Etym.: like Lat.
Sense
- (relative adjective) (often as anaphor to τόσος, or πᾶς, ἅπας) as much as, how much
- (followed by particles) (ὅσος ἄν) how ever great
- (ὅσος δή) how great, how ever many
- (ὁσοσοῦν) ever so small
- (ὅσοσπερ) even so great as, no greater than
- (adverbial usages) so far as, so much as
- (ὅσῳ, ὅσῳ περ, often with comparative) by how much
- (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.
- καὶ τῶν βοῶν σου καὶ τῶν προβάτων σου πληθυνθέντων σοι, ἀργυρίου καὶ χρυσίου πληθυνθέντοσ σοι καὶ πάντων, ὅσων σοι ἔσται, πληθυνθέντων σοι, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 8:13)
- Καὶ οἱ κριταί, ἕκαστοσ τῷ αὐτοῦ ὀνόματι, ὅσων οὐκ ἐξεπόρνευσεν ἡ καρδία καὶ ὅσοι οὐκ ἀπεστράφησαν ἀπὸ Κυρίου, εἴη τὸ μνημόσυνον αὐτῶν ἐν εὐλογίαισ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 46:11)
- καὶ ὡσ οὐκέτι ἀνεχώρησεν Εὐρυσθεύσ, βουλομένων καὶ τῶν Μυκηναίων φόβῳ τῶν Ἡρακλειδῶν, καὶ ἅμα δυνατὸν δοκοῦντα εἶναι καὶ τὸ πλῆθοσ τεθεραπευκότα τῶν Μυκηναίων τε καὶ ὅσων Εὐρυσθεὺσ ἦρχεν τὴν βασιλείαν Ἀτρέα παραλαβεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 15 2:3)
- οὕτω γέ τοι καὶ χρυσὸσ ἑτέρῳ χρυσῷ παρατεθεὶσ κρείττων εἴτε καὶ χείρων εὑρίσκεται καὶ πᾶν ἄλλο χειρούργημα, καὶ ὅσων ἐνέργεια τὸ τέλοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 1 7:4)
- εὑρὼν γὰρ τὰσ Ἐπικούρου κυρίασ δόξασ, τὸ κάλλιστον, ὡσ οἶσθα, τῶν βιβλίων καὶ κεφαλαιώδη περιέχον τῆσ τἀνδρὸσ σοφίασ τὰ δόγματα, κομίσασ εἰσ τὴν ἀγορὰν μέσην ἔκαυσεν ἐπὶ ξύλων συκίνων ὡσ δῆθεν αὐτὸν καταφλέγων, καὶ τὴν σποδὸν εἰσ τὴν θάλασσαν ἐξέβαλεν, ἔτι καὶ χρησμὸν ἐπιφθεγξάμενοσ Πυρπολέειν κέλομαι δόξασ ἀλαοῖο γέροντοσ οὐκ εἰδὼσ ὁ κατάρατοσ ὅσων ἀγαθῶν τὸ βιβλίον ἐκεῖνο τοῖσ ἐντυχοῦσιν αἴτιον γίγνεται, καὶ ὅσην αὐτοῖσ εἰρήνην καὶ ἀταραξίαν καὶ ἐλευθερίαν ἐνεργάζεται, δειμάτων μὲν καὶ φασμάτων καὶ τεράτων ἀπαλλάττον καὶ ἐλπίδων ματαίων καὶ περιττῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν, νοῦν δὲ καὶ ἀλήθειαν ἐντιθὲν καὶ καθαῖρον ὡσ ἀληθῶσ τὰσ γνώμασ, οὐχ ὑπὸ δᾳδὶ καὶ σκίλλῃ καὶ ταῖσ τοιαύταισ φλυαρίαισ, ἀλλὰ λόγῳ ὀρθῷ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ καὶ παρρησίᾳ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 47:2)
