ὅσον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὅσσον (hósson) – Epic
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hó.son/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)o.son/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.son/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.son/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.son/
Adjective
ὅσον • (hóson)
- inflection of ὅσος (hósos):
- accusative singular masculine
- nominative and accusative singular neuter
Adverb
ὅσον • (hóson)
- so far as, so much as
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.371
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1367A.34
- 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1252
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 145A
- 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 2.59
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 152
- 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Civil Wars 4.11
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.222
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.360
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 946
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.46
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 196D
- 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 153
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1509
- 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 422C
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1239
- how far, how much
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.276
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 927
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 41
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 346
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 582
- only so far as, only just
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.354
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.45
- 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 485A
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 403D
- 342 BCE – 291 BCE, Diphilus, Collected Works 43.14
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1076A.27
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.92
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.20
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.105
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 607A
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 778C
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.73
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.3.20
- 362 BCE – 262 BCE, Philemon, Collected Works 98.3
- 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 213
- 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 5:3
- 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Epigrams 47.9
- 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 37
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.181
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.190
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.519
- 340 BCE – 285 BCE, Philitas, Collected Works 7
- (in reference to distances) about, nearly
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.325
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.517
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.114
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.351
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.57
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.96
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.51
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.38
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 229C
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.28
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.3.23
- (with adjectives of quality or degree, mostly with comparative)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.722
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.186
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.160
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.17
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.516
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 772
- 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1103
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1433
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 524
- (with negatives) just not, all but
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.36
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.59
- 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 141
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.96
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 2.4.4
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 8.34.8
- 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 1076
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.125
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.34
- 60 CE – 120 CE, Nicomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic 1.8
- 200 CE – 400 CE, Heliodorus of Emesa, Aethiopica 2.31
Derived terms
- ἐς ὅσον (es hóson)
- ἐφ’ ὅσον (eph’ hóson)
- καθ’ ὅσον (kath’ hóson)
- ὅσον μή (hóson mḗ)
- ὁσονοῦν (hosonoûn)
- οὐδ’ ὅσον (oud’ hóson)
- οὐχ ὅσον οὐκ ἠμύναντο (oukh hóson ouk ēmúnanto)