ὅσον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὅσσον (hósson) — Epic

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hó.son/ → /ˈo.son/ → /ˈo.son/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hó.son/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)o.son/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.son/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.son/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.son/

Adjective

ὅσον • (hóson)

1. inflection of ὅσος (hósos):
   1. accusative singular masculine
   2. nominative/accusative singular neuter

Adverb

ὅσον • (hóson)

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. (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
5. (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
6. (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)