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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

  • "ποῖοσ δὲ ἢ πόσοσ ὁ κάματοσ ἐγχέαι φάρμακον; (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 17:1)
  • πόσοσ τισ; (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue 2:26)
  • καὶ πυνθάνονται πόσοι βόεσ τοῦ γείτονοσ ἀποτεθνήκασιν ἢ πόσοσ οἶνοσ ὀξίνησ γέγονε· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 7 3:2)
  • ἀποτεθνήκασιν ἢ πόσοσ οἶνοσ ὀξίνησ γέγονε· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 7 7:2)
  • πόσαι τε ἀρχαί, καὶ κύριαι τίνων, καὶ περὶ χρόνου, πόσοσ ἑκάστησ ἀρχῆσ οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἑξαμήνουσ, οἱ δὲ δι’ ἐλάττονοσ, οἱ δ’ ἐνιαυσίασ, οἱ δὲ πολυχρονιωτέρασ ποιοῦσι τὰσ ἀρχάσ, καὶ πότερον εἶναι δεῖ τὰσ ἀρχὰσ ἀιδίουσ ἢ πολυχρονίουσ ἢ μηδέτερον ἀλλὰ πλεονάκισ τοὺσ αὐτούσ, ἢ μὴ τὸν αὐτὸν δὶσ ἀλλ’ ἅπαξ μόνον, ἔτι δὲ περὶ τὴν κατάστασιν τῶν ἀρχῶν, ἐκ τίνων δεῖ γίνεσθαι καὶ ὑπὸ τίνων καὶ πῶσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 241:1)

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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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