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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

  • ὄντων ἀριθμῷ ἔσονται ποσαί τινεσ ἀλλὰ εἴδει· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 3 159:1)
  • καὶ εἶπε Βερζελλὶ πρὸσ τὸν βασιλέα. πόσαι ἡμέραι ἐτῶν ζωῆσ μου, ὅτι ἀναβήσομαι μετὰ τοῦ βασιλέωσ εἰσ Ἱερουσαλήμ̣ (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 19:34)
  • πόσαι εἰσὶν αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ δούλου σου̣ πότε ποιήσεισ μοι ἐκ τῶν καταδιωκόντων με κρίσιν̣ (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 118:84)
  • πόσαι εἰσὶν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι μου καὶ ἀνομίαι μου̣ δίδαξόν με τίνεσ εἰσί. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 13:23)
  • διακρίνομεν δὲ τί ποτέ ἐστι λογισμὸσ καὶ τί πάθοσ, καὶ πόσαι παθῶν ἰδέαι, καὶ εἰ πάντων ἐπικρατεῖ τούτων ὁ λογισμόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 1:13)
  • ἐρομένου γάρ τινοσ ἐπὶ χλευασμῷ, Εἰ χιλίασ μνᾶσ ξύλων καύσαιμι, ὦ Δημῶναξ, πόσαι μναῖ ἂν καπνοῦ γένοιντο; (Lucian, (no name) 39:2)

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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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