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

  • πηλίκαισ καὶ πόσαισ τότε ἡ μήτηρ τῶν υἱῶν βασανιζομένων τροχοῖσ τε καὶ καυτηρίοισ ἐβασανίζετο βασάνοισ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 15:22)
  • εἴπατε πέτραι, εἴπατε κύματα μακρά, πόσαισ ἐμάχοντο θυέλλαισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 102)
  • ὁ δὲ Κερσοβλέπτησ πόσαισ πρότερον ἡμέραισ ἀπώλεσε τὴν ἀρχὴν πρὶν ἐμὲ ἀπιέναι; (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 92 1:2)
  • γενεαῖσ δὴ πόσαισ ὕστερον οἰόμεθα τοῦθ’ οὕτωσ γεγονέναι; (Plato, Laws, book 3 15:3)

Related

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

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