ὅσος
See also: όσος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From earlier Proto-Hellenic *hotsos, from Pre-Greek *yotyos, from Proto-Indo-European *yoti, adverb from *yós, whence ὅς (hós).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hó.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)o.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.sos/
Adjective
ὅσος • (hósos)
- (relative adjective) often as anaphor to τόσος, or πᾶς, ἅπας as much as, how much
- (for ὅτι τοσοῦτος)
- (followed by particles)
- (ὅσος ἄν) how ever great
- (ὅσος δή) how great, how ever many
- (ὁσοσοῦν) ever so small
- (ὅσοσπερ) even so great as, no greater than
- (ὅσος ἄν) how ever great
- (ὅσῳ, ὅσῳ περ, often with comparative) by how much
- (with comparative, when followed by another comparative with τοσούτῳ) the more.., so much the more..
- (ἐν ὅσῳ) while
Inflection
Number | Singular | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | ὅσος hósos |
ὅση hósē |
ὅσον hóson |
ὅσοι hósoi |
ὅσαι hósai |
ὅσᾰ hósa | ||||||||
Genitive | ὅσου hósou |
ὅσης hósēs |
ὅσου hósou |
ὅσων hósōn |
ὅσων hósōn |
ὅσων hósōn | ||||||||
Dative | ὅσῳ hósōi |
ὅσῃ hósēi |
ὅσῳ hósōi |
ὅσοις hósois |
ὅσαις hósais |
ὅσοις hósois | ||||||||
Accusative | ὅσον hóson |
ὅσην hósēn |
ὅσον hóson |
ὅσους hósous |
ὅσᾱς hósās |
ὅσᾰ hósa | ||||||||
Vocative | ὅσε hóse |
ὅση hósē |
ὅσον hóson |
ὅσοι hósoi |
ὅσαι hósai |
ὅσᾰ hósa | ||||||||
Notes: |
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See also
Ancient Greek correlatives (edit)
type | interrogative | indefinite | (medial) demonstrative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative | relative | indefinite relative | identity | other |
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basic | τίς | τις | †ὁ, οὗτος | ὅδε | ἐκεῖνος | ὅς | ὅστις | ὁ αὐτός (αὑτός), ὁμός | ἕτερος, ἄλλος |
dual | πότερος | πότερος, ποτερός | ὁπότερος | ||||||
quality | ποῖος | ποιός | †τοῖος, τοιοῦτος | τοιόσδε | οἷος | ὁποῖος | ὅμοιος | ἑτεροῖος, ἀλλοῖος | |
quantity | πόσος | ποσός | †τόσος, τοσοῦτος | τοσόσδε | ὅσος | ὁπόσος | |||
manner | πῶς | πως | †τώς, †ὥς, οὕτως | ὧδε | ὡς | ὅπως | ὁμῶς | ἑτέρως, ἄλλως | |
method, path place |
πῇ | πῃ | τῇ, ταύτῃ | τῇδε | ἐκείνῃ | ᾗ | ὅπῃ | ἄλλῃ | |
place | ποῦ, †πόθι | που, †ποθί | ἐνταῦθα | ἐκεῖ, ἔνθα, †ἐκεῖθι | οὗ, ἔνθα, †ὅθι | ὅπου, †ὁπόθι | αὐτόθι, ὁμοῦ | ἄλλοθι | |
source | πόθεν | ποθέν | †τόθεν, ἔνθεν, ἐντεῦθεν | ἐκεῖθεν | ὅθεν | ὁπόθεν | †ὁμόθεν | ἄλλοθεν | |
destination | ποῖ, †πόσε | ποι | ἔνθα, ἐνταῦθα | ἐνθάδε | ἐκεῖσε | οἷ | ὅποι, †ὁπόσε | αὐτόσε, ὁμόσε | ἄλλοσε |
time | πότε, πῆμος | ποτέ | τότε, τῆμος | τημόσδε | ὅτε, ἦμος | ὁπότε, †ὁππῆμος | ἅμα | ἄλλοτε | |
exact time | πηνίκα | πηνίκα | †τηνίκα, τηνικαῦτα | τηνικάδε | ἡνίκα | ὁπηνίκα | αὐτίκα | ||
size, age | πηλίκος | πηλίκος | †τηλίκος, τηλικοῦτος | τηλικόσδε | ἡλίκος | ὁπηλίκος | ὁμῆλιξ | ||
repetition | ποσάκις, ποσίνδα | ποσάκις | τουτάκις, τόσακις | †ὁσάκις ὁποσάκις | ὁποσάκις | ||||
multiplication | ποσαπλάσιος | ὁσαπλάσιος, ὁσαπλασίων | |||||||
order | πόστος | ποστός | ὁπόστος | ||||||
† Forms rarely or never used in Classical Attic prose Relative also used in exclamations; either relative or indefinite relative used in indirect questions. |
References
- ὅσος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὅσος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὅσος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὅσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὅσος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ὅσος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3745 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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