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πόσος
πόσος
See also: ποσός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κόσος (kósos) Ionic
Adjective
πόσος • (pósos) m (feminine πόση, neuter πόσον); first/second declension
- interrogative adjective of quantity: how much?, how many?, how big?, how great?, how far?, how long?
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | ||||
| Nominative | πόσος | πόση | πόσον | πόσω | πόσᾱ | πόσω | πόσοι | πόσαι | πόσᾰ | ||||
| Genitive | πόσου | πόσης | πόσου | πόσοιν | πόσαιν | πόσοιν | πόσων | πόσων | πόσων | ||||
| Dative | πόσῳ | πόσῃ | πόσῳ | πόσοιν | πόσαιν | πόσοιν | πόσοις | πόσαις | πόσοις | ||||
| Accusative | πόσον | πόσην | πόσον | πόσω | πόσᾱ | πόσω | πόσους | πόσᾱς | πόσᾰ | ||||
| Vocative | πόσε | πόση | πόσον | πόσω | πόσᾱ | πόσω | πόσοι | πόσαι | πόσᾰ | ||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | ||||||||||
| πόσως | ποσώτερος | ποσώτᾰτος | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
References
- πόσος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πόσος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “G4214”, 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.
Greek
Pronoun
πόσος • (pósos) m (interrogative, feminine πόση, neuter πόσο)
- how much? (questions of quantity and extent)
- Πόσο κάνει; ― Póso kánei? ― How much?
- Πόσο γάλα; ― Póso gála? ― How much milk?
- Πόση ώρα είσαι εδώ; ― Pósi óra eísai edó? ― How long have you been here?
- (plural) how many? (questions of quantity)
- Πόσοι θέλετε καφέ; ― Pósoi thélete kafé? ― How many want coffee?