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ποσός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποσός ποσή ποσόν

Structure: πος (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

of a certain quantity or magnitude

Declension

First/Second declension

		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	ποσός	ποσή	ποσόν
	Genitive	ποσοῦ	ποσῆς	ποσοῦ
	Dative	ποσῷ	ποσῇ	ποσῷ
	Accusative	ποσόν	ποσήν	ποσόν
	Vocative	ποσέ	ποσή	ποσόν
Dual	N/A/V	ποσώ	ποσᾱ́	ποσώ
Dual	G/D	ποσοῖν	ποσαῖν	ποσοῖν
Plural	Nominative	ποσοί	ποσαί	ποσά
	Genitive	ποσῶν	ποσῶν	ποσῶν
	Dative	ποσοῖς	ποσαῖς	ποσοῖς
	Accusative	ποσούς	ποσᾱ́ς	ποσά
	Vocative	ποσοί	ποσαί	ποσά

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ποσός ποσοῦ	ποσώτερος ποσωτεροῦ	ποσώτατος ποσωτατοῦ
Adverb	ποσώς	ποσώτερον	ποσώτατα

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

ἔχεων δὲ τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἀραβίᾳ κατὰ ποσοὺσ καὶ πλείονεσ καὶ ἐλάσσονεσ ὑπὸ ἕκαστον αὐλίζονται δένδρον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 28 5:4)
πόσουσ τοίνυν οἰώμεθα τῶν Ἀλεξάνδρου φίλων παρὰ τὸν καιρὸν ἐκεῖνον ἀπολαῦσαι τῆσ Ἡφαιστίωνοσ θειότητοσ, διαβληθέντασ ὡσ οὐ τιμῶσι τὸν κοινὸν ἀπάντων θεόν, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἐξελαθέντασ καὶ τῆσ τοῦ βασιλέωσ εὐνοίασ ἐκπεσόντασ; (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 17:8)
καίτοι πόσουσ ἐγὼ καὶ τῶν ἐπιχειρησάντων μοι καὶ φανερῶσ ἐληλεγμένων ὅμωσ ἔσωσα; (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 9:5)
πόσουσ ἔχεισ ὀδόντασ. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 2:8)
λαβοῦσα δ’ ὑμᾶσ λοιδορῆσαι βούλομαι κοινῇ δικαίωσ, οἳ μιᾶσ ἐκ χέρνιβοσ βωμοὺσ περιρραίνοντεσ ὥσπερ ξυγγενεῖσ Ὀλυμπίασιν, ἐν Πύλαισ, Πυθοῖ πόσουσ εἴποιμ’ ἂν ἄλλουσ, εἴ με μηκύνειν δέοι; (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, anapests 1:8)
πόσουσ δρόμουσ ἐλᾷ τὰ πολεμιστήρια; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 2:5)

ποιός (Οf a certain nature)
ποσάκις (how many times? how often?)
πόστος (which of a number?)
πηλίκος (how great or large?)
διαιρετός (divided)
ποτέρως (in which of two ways?)
ἀσκητέος (to be practised)
προθυμητέος (one must be eager)
ὁπόσος (as many as)
()
πηνίκα (at what point of time? at what hour?)
ἀναπλήρωσις (a filling up)
ἀντάλλαγμα (that which is given)
πόσε (whither?)
μεμετρημένως (according to a stated measure)
ἀρκετός (sufficient)
αὐτοάνθρωπος (the ideal man)
ἀλλοίωσις (a change)
ὁσαχοῦ (in as many places as)
ὁριστέος (one must determine)
μηδέτερος (neither of the two)
μυριοστός (the)
διπλάσιος (twofold)
δεκάκις (ten-times)
πῶς (In any way)
μορμολυκεῖον ()
μοναδικός (consisting of units)
ἡμιμναῖον (a half-mina)
φθίσις (decline)
πάρισος (almost equal)

Similar forms

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

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