ὁπόσος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὁππόσος (hoppósos), ὁπόσσος (hopóssos) – Epic
- ὁκόσος (hokósos) – Ionic
- ὁπόττος (hopóttos) – Cretan, Boeotian
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ho.pó.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)oˈpo.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈpo.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈpo.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈpo.sos/
Determiner
ὁπόσος • (hopósos)
- as many as
- as much as, as big as
Declension
First and second declension of ὁπόσος; ὁπόση; ὁπόσον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | ὁπόσος hopósos | ὁπόση hopósē | ὁπόσον hopóson | ὁπόσω hopósō | ὁπόσᾱ hopósā | ὁπόσω hopósō | ὁπόσοι hopósoi | ὁπόσαι hopósai | ὁπόσᾰ hopósa | |||||
Genitive | ὁπόσου hopósou | ὁπόσης hopósēs | ὁπόσου hopósou | ὁπόσοιν hopósoin | ὁπόσαιν hopósain | ὁπόσοιν hopósoin | ὁπόσων hopósōn | ὁπόσων hopósōn | ὁπόσων hopósōn | |||||
Dative | ὁπόσῳ hopósōi | ὁπόσῃ hopósēi | ὁπόσῳ hopósōi | ὁπόσοιν hopósoin | ὁπόσαιν hopósain | ὁπόσοιν hopósoin | ὁπόσοις hopósois | ὁπόσαις hopósais | ὁπόσοις hopósois | |||||
Accusative | ὁπόσον hopóson | ὁπόσην hopósēn | ὁπόσον hopóson | ὁπόσω hopósō | ὁπόσᾱ hopósā | ὁπόσω hopósō | ὁπόσους hopósous | ὁπόσᾱς hopósās | ὁπόσᾰ hopósa | |||||
Vocative | ὁπόσε hopóse | ὁπόση hopósē | ὁπόσον hopóson | ὁπόσω hopósō | ὁπόσᾱ hopósā | ὁπόσω hopósō | ὁπόσοι hopósoi | ὁπόσαι hopósai | ὁπόσᾰ hopósa | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
ὁπόσως hopósōs | ὁποσώτερος hoposṓteros | ὁποσώτᾰτος hoposṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὁποσοσοῦν (hopososoûn)
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, ἔνιοι | †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, †ποθι | ἐνταῦθα | ἐκεῖ, ἔνθα, †ἐκεῖθι | οὗ, ἔνθα, †ὅθι | ὅπου, †ὁπόθι | αὐτόθι, ὁμοῦ | ἄλλοθι | |
source | πόθεν | ποθεν | †τόθεν, ἔνθεν, ἐντεῦθεν | ἐνθένδε | ἐκεῖθεν | ὅθεν | ὁπόθεν | †ὁμόθεν | ἄλλοθεν |
destination | ποῖ, †πόσε | ποι | ἔνθα, ἐνταῦθα | ἐνθάδε | ἐκεῖσε | οἷ | ὅποι, †ὁπόσε | αὐτόσε, ὁμόσε | ἄλλοσε |
time | πότε, πῆμος | ποτέ, ποτε, τοτέ, ἐνίοτε | τότε, τῆμος | τημόσδε | ὅτε, ἦμος | ὁπότε, †ὁππῆμος | ἅμα | ἄλλοτε | |
exact time | πηνίκα | †τηνίκα, τηνικαῦτα | τηνικάδε | ἡνίκα | ὁπηνίκα | αὐτίκα | |||
duration of time | τέως | ἕως | |||||||
size, age | πηλίκος | πηλίκος | †τηλίκος, τηλικοῦτος | τηλικόσδε | ἡλίκος | ὁπηλίκος | ὁμῆλιξ | ||
repetition | ποσάκις, ποσίνδα | ποσάκις | τουτάκις, τοσάκις | †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. |
Further reading
- “ὁπόσος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὁπόσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὁππόσος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ὁπόσος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
- “ὁπόσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὁπόσος”, 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.
- big idem, page 78.