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ὅσος

ὅσος

See also: όσος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Adjective

ὅσος (hósos)

  1. (relative adjective) often as anaphor to τόσος, or πᾶς, ἅπας as much as, how much
    1. (in plural the noun may be in nominative or partitive genitive)
    2. (in Attic, of time)
    3. (with τις)
    4. (with accusative absolute)
    5. (with adjectives expressing quantity)
    6. (with superlative)
    7. (with infinitive) so much as is enough for
    8. (οὐδ᾽ὅσον)
  2. (for ὅτι τοσοῦτος)
  3. (followed by particles)
    1. (ὅσος ἄν) how ever great
    2. (ὅσος δή) how great, how ever many
    3. (ὁσοσοῦν) ever so small
    4. (ὅσοσπερ) even so great as, no greater than
  4. (adverbial usages)
    1. so far as, so much as
      1. how far, how much
    2. only so far as, only just
    3. (in reference to distances) about, nearly
    4. (with adjectives of quality or degree, mostly with comparative)
    5. (with negatives) only not, all but
      1. (οὐχ ὅσον οὐκ ἠμύναντο)
      2. (ὅσον μή) so far as not, save or except so far as
    6. (ὁσονοῦν) ever so little
    7. (ὅσα and ὅσαπερ are sometimes used just like ὡς, ὥσπερ)
  5. (ὅσῳ, ὅσῳ περ, often with comparative) by how much
    1. (with comparative, when followed by another comparative with τοσούτῳ) the more.., so much the more..
  6. (ἐς ὅσον, ἐφ᾽ ὅσον, καθ᾽ὅσον are often used much like ὅσον)
    1. (ἐν ὅσῳ) while

Inflection

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.
    • big idem, page 78.
    • great idem, page 372.
    • how idem, page 408.
    • large idem, page 476.
    • much idem, page 545.
  • Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press