Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ποσός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποσός ποσή ποσόν

Structure: πος (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of a certain quantity or magnitude

Declension

First/Second 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

  • μὲν λέγεται καθ’ αὑτὰ ποσά, τὰ δὲ κατὰ συμβεβηκόσ, οἱο͂ν ἡ μὲν γραμμὴ ποσόν τι καθ’ ἑαυτό, τὸ δὲ μουσικὸν κατὰ συμβεβηκόσ. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 159:1)
  • γιγνώσκεται δὲ ἢ ἑνὶ ἢ ἀριθμῷ τὸ ποσὸν ᾗ ποσόν, ὁ δὲ ἀριθμὸσ ἅπασ ἑνί, ὥστε πᾶν τὸ ποσὸν γιγνώσκεται ᾗ ποσὸν τῷ ἑνί, καὶ ᾧ πρώτῳ ποσὰ γιγνώσκεται, τοῦτο αὐτὸ ἕν· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 10 13:2)
  • πῶσ δὲ ἢ ποιὰ ἢ ποσά, μή. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 14 46:1)
  • ἐπὶ μὲν οὖν τῶν ἄλλων κατηγοριῶν ἔχει τινὰ καὶ ἄλλην ἐπίστασιν πῶσ πολλά διὰ γὰρ τὸ μὴ χωριστὰ εἶναι τῷ τὸ ὑποκείμενον πολλὰ γίγνεσθαι καὶ εἶναι ποιά τε πολλὰ εἶναι καὶ ποσά· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 14 54:2)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ εἰ μὴ ταὐτόν ἐστι τὸ τόδε καὶ τὸ ποσόν, οὐ λέγεται πῶσ καὶ διὰ τί πολλὰ τὰ ὄντα, ἀλλὰ πῶσ ποσὰ πολλά. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 14 56:2)
  • εἶπε δὲ Φαραὼ τῷ Ἰακώβ. πόσα ἔτη ἡμερῶν τῆσ ζωῆσ σου̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 47:8)
  • πόσα γὰρ οἰέσθε παθεῖν με, πόσα καμεῖν παρόντα, ὑπηρετοῦντα, καιροφυλακοῦντα, νῦν μὲν εἴκοντα τῇ τοῦ πάθουσ ἀκμῇ, νῦν δὲ τὴν τέχνην ἐπάγοντα πρὸσ ὀλίγον ἐνδιδόντοσ τοῦ κακοῦ ; (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 16:2)
  • "πόσα δὲ ἡμῖν ἔτη παραμενεῖσ χρησμῳδῶν; (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 43:9)
  • καὶ ἄθρει πόσα. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 12:10)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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