ὅσος
See also: όσος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὅσσος (hóssos) – Epic
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *hótsos, from earlier *yótyos, from Proto-Indo-European *yoti, adverb from *yós, whence ὅς (hós).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hó.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)o.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.sos/
Adjective
ὅσος • (hósos)
- (relative adjective) often as anaphor to τόσος, or πᾶς, ἅπας as much as, how much
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.670
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.169
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 286
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, First Philippic 35
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.190
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.723
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.115
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 976
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1464
- 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 174
- 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 44
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.86
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.113
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.371
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.45
- 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 1.1
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.658
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 118
- 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1278
- 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 2
- 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 309
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.630
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 16.236
- 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 68B
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 11.12
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.1.10
- (in plural the noun may be in nominative or partitive genitive)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.13
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.267
- 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 441
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.55
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 467D
- (in Attic, of time)
- (with τις)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.45
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.193
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.102
- (with accusative absolute)
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.170
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 423B
- (with adjectives expressing quantity)
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.194
- 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 750
- 390 BCE, Plato, Hippias Major 282C
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Halcyon 5
- 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Rhetoric 1.3.91
- 1 CE – 100 CE, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, De Natura Deorum 9
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Alexander the False Prophet 1
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 350D
- 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Collected Works 1.1
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 150D
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laches 184C
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 588A
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 1.45
- (with superlative)
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.44
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.21
- 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 727
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 1.42
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.589
- (with infinitive) so much as is enough for
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.1.5
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1191
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.49
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 416E
- (for ὅτι τοσοῦτος)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.75
- 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 74
- (followed by particles)
- (ὅσος ἄν) how ever great
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.66
- (ὅσος δή) how great, how ever many
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.487
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.52
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.160
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.151
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.157
- 350 BCE – 250 BCE, Euclid, Elements 9.9
- 331 CE – 363 CE, Julian, Orations 3.119A
- 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 2.45
- 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 4.60
- (ὁσοσοῦν) ever so small
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.199
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1265A.41
- (ὅσοσπερ) even so great as, no greater than
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.50
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 475
- 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 423
- 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 441
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.87
- 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 806
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.113
- (ὅσος ἄν) how ever great
- (ὅσῳ, ὅσῳ περ, often with comparative) by how much
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 40
- 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 488.3
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.3.14
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.82
- 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 59
- 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1050
- (with comparative, when followed by another comparative with τοσούτῳ) the more.., so much the more..
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.5.80
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 368B
- 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1419
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 792
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.84
- 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Olive Stump 39
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.137
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.49
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.13
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 313
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 743
- (ἐν ὅσῳ) while
- 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 943
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.87
Inflection
First and second declension of ὅσος; ὅση; ὅσον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | ὅσος hósos | ὅση hósē | ὅσον hóson | ὅσοι hósoi | ὅσαι hósai | ὅσᾰ hósa | ||||||||
Genitive | ὅσου hósou | ὅσης hósēs | ὅσου hósou | ὅσων hósōn | ὅσων hósōn | ὅσων hósōn | ||||||||
Dative | ὅσῳ hósōi | ὅσῃ hósēi | ὅσῳ hósōi | ὅσοις hósois | ὅσαις hósais | ὅσοις hósois | ||||||||
Accusative | ὅσον hóson | ὅσην hósēn | ὅσον hóson | ὅσους hósous | ὅσᾱς hósās | ὅσᾰ hósa | ||||||||
Vocative | ὅσε hóse | ὅση hósē | ὅσον hóson | ὅσοι hósoi | ὅσαι hósai | ὅσᾰ hósa | ||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: όσος (ósos)
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. |
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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- 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.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN