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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

  • ὅθεν ἀφαιροῦντεσ φωνὴν μὲν τῶν κινουμένων κίνησιν δὲ τῶν στερεῶν βάθοσ δὲ τῶν ἐπιπέδων, μέγεθοσ δὲ τῶν ποσῶν, ἐν αὐταῖσ γενησόμεθα ταῖσ νοηταῖσ ἰδέαισ, οὐδεμίαν διαφορὰν ἐχούσαισ πρὸσ ἀλλήλασ κατὰ τὸ ἓν καὶ μόνον νοούμενον. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 3, section 1 8:1)
  • καὶ ἀγνώτων δὲ παρακαθημένων κελεῦσαι θεῖναι τὰσ ψήφουσ ἕνα αὐτῶν καὶ ποσῶν καθ’ ἑξακοσίασ καὶ κατὰ μίαν καὶ προστιθεὶσ πιθανῶσ ἑκάστοισ τούτων ὀνόματα ποιῆσαι καὶ δέκα τάλαντα· (Theophrastus, Characters, 6:2)
  • τῶν δὲ κατὰ συμβεβηκὸσ λεγομένων ποσῶν τὰ μὲν οὕτωσ λέγεται ὥσπερ ἐλέχθη ὅτι τὸ μουσικὸν ποσὸν καὶ τὸ λευκὸν τῷ εἶναι ποσόν τι ᾧ ὑπάρχουσι, τὰ δὲ ὡσ κίνησισ καὶ χρόνοσ· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 162:2)
  • κολοβὸν δὲ λέγεται τῶν ποσῶν οὐ τὸ τυχόν, ἀλλὰ μεριστόν τε δεῖ αὐτὸ εἶναι καὶ ὅλον. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 245:1)
  • ἀπὸ τῶν ἴσων ἴσων ἀφαιρεθέντων ἴσα τὰ λειπόμενα, κοινὸν μέν ἐστιν ἐπὶ πάντων τῶν ποσῶν, ἡ μαθηματικὴ δ’ ἀπολαβοῦσα περί τι μέροσ τῆσ οἰκείασ ὕλησ ποιεῖται τὴν θεωρίαν, οἱο͂ν περὶ γραμμὰσ ἢ γωνίασ ἢ ἀριθμοὺσ ἢ τῶν λοιπῶν τι ποσῶν, οὐχ ᾗ δ’ ὄντα ἀλλ’ ᾗ συνεχὲσ αὐτῶν ἕκαστον ἐφ’ ἓν ἢ δύο ἢ τρία· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 11 54:1)
  • τούτων οὖν ἁπάντων ἕνεκα πόσων θανάτων τὸ Ταῦ ἄξιον εἶναι νομίζετε; (Lucian, Judicium vocalium, (no name) 12:6)
  • πόσων περιρραντηρίων, πόσων ποταμῶν δεῖ ; (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 20:8)
  • πόσων μετ’ ἀνδρῶν; (Euripides, episode, lyric 1:36)
  • "σκόπει δὴ πόσων, γῆ σεληνῶν ἐστιν, εἰ σκιὰν ἀφίησιν, ᾗ βραχυτάτη, πλάτοσ τρισέληνον. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 6 1:4)

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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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