ὡς
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hɔːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /os/
Adverb
ὡς • (hōs)
(relative adverb)
Conjunction
ὡς • (hōs)
- (subordinating conjunction or complementizer, introducing dependent or subordinate clause)
- (with noun clauses) introducing a clause expressing a fact: that (with indicative or optative)
- (final) introducing a clause expressing an end or purpose: that, so that, in order that, so (with subjunctive or optative)
- (consequential) introducing a clause expressing a result: so that
- (causal) as, since, because
- (temporal) when
- (modal) how
- (local) where
See also
Ancient Greek correlatives (edit)
type | interrogative | indefinite | (medial) demonstrative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative | relative | indefinite relative | identity | other |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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. |
Adverb
ὡς • (hōs)
(demonstrative adverb)
- in καὶ ὧς: even so, nevertheless
- in comparisons, ὥς (hṓs)... ὡς (hōs) or ὡς (hōs)... ὣς (hṑs): so... as...
- thus, for instance
Alternative forms
- ὧς (hôs)
References
- ὡς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὡς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὡς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὡς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὡς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ὡς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5613 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.
- about idem, page 2.
- among idem, page 27.
- as idem, page 42.
- because idem, page 68.
- before idem, page 69.
- even idem, page 284.
- for idem, page 334.
- how idem, page 408.
- however idem, page 408.
- like idem, page 491.
- nearly idem, page 553.
- order idem, page 578.
- prepare idem, page 635.
- presence idem, page 636.
- since idem, page 777.
- so idem, page 790.
- that idem, page 863.
- to idem, page 878.
- when idem, page 975.
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