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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

  • τὰσ δὲ δυνάμεισ ἔχει τῶν ὑγρῶν τὰ μὲν ὀξέα καὶ μήπω πέπονα στρυφνοτέρασ καὶ ποσῶσ ὀξείασ χυμόν τε ἀναδίδωσιν εἰσ τὸ σῶμα τὸν καλούμενον ξυστικόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 20 3:1)
  • "εἰσὶ δὲ σκληροὶ καὶ ὀλιγόχυλοι καὶ οὐκ ἄγαν δριμεῖαι, εὔστομοι δὲ καὶ εὐκατέργαστοι, ἑφθαὶ δὲ ποσῶσ εὔστομοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 8:3)

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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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