Ancient Greek

Adjective

τοῖος • ‎(toîos) m ‎(feminine τοίᾱ, neuter τοῖον)

1. (demonstrative adjective, chiefly poetic) of this sort, such
   1. (correlative, τοῖος ... οἷος ...) such ... as ...
   2. (referring to something mentioned earlier)
   3. (like οἷος ‎(hoîos)) such as to do, able or capable to do (with infinitive)
   4. (emphasizing an adjective of same gender and case) just, very, so

Inflection

Usage notes

This is the demonstrative adjective and pronoun corresponding to the interrogative adjective ποῖος ‎(poîos), the indefinite adjective ποιός ‎(poiós), and relative pronoun οἷος ‎(hoîos). Mainly used in Homer and other poets. In prose, τοιοῦτος ‎(toioûtos) is used.

Derived terms

• τοιοῦτος ‎(toioûtos)
• τοιόσδε ‎(toiósde)
• τοιχώρυχος ‎(toikhṓrukhos)

References

• τοῖος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τοῖος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τοῖος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «τοῖος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «τοῖος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• τοῖος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • character idem, page 125.
  • such idem, page 834.