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ἡλίκος
ἡλίκος
Ancient Greek
Adjective
ἡλῐ́κος • (hēlíkos) m (feminine ἡλῐ́κη, neuter ἡλῐ́κον); first/second declension
- (relative adjective) as big or great as, as old as
- 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 13
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ἀλλ᾽ ἐφ᾽ οἷς ἀδικοῦντά μ᾽ ἑώρα τὴν πόλιν, οὖσί γε τηλικούτοις ἡλίκα νῦν ἐτραγῴδει καὶ διεξῄει, ...
- But against whatever wrongs he saw me commit against the city, if they really are as great as he just now dramatized and recounted in detail, ...
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ἀλλ᾽ ἐφ᾽ οἷς ἀδικοῦντά μ᾽ ἑώρα τὴν πόλιν, οὖσί γε τηλικούτοις ἡλίκα νῦν ἐτραγῴδει καὶ διεξῄει, ...
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- (indirect interrogative adjective) how big; extraordinarily big or small
- (exclamatory adjective) how big!
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | ||||
| Nominative | ἡλῐ́κος | ἡλῐ́κη | ἡλῐ́κον | ἡλῐ́κω | ἡλῐ́κᾱ | ἡλῐ́κω | ἡλῐ́κοι | ἥλῐκαι | ἡλῐ́κᾰ | ||||
| Genitive | ἡλῐ́κου | ἡλῐ́κης | ἡλῐ́κου | ἡλῐ́κοιν | ἡλῐ́καιν | ἡλῐ́κοιν | ἡλῐ́κων | ἡλῐ́κων | ἡλῐ́κων | ||||
| Dative | ἡλῐ́κῳ | ἡλῐ́κῃ | ἡλῐ́κῳ | ἡλῐ́κοιν | ἡλῐ́καιν | ἡλῐ́κοιν | ἡλῐ́κοις | ἡλῐ́καις | ἡλῐ́κοις | ||||
| Accusative | ἡλῐ́κον | ἡλῐ́κην | ἡλῐ́κον | ἡλῐ́κω | ἡλῐ́κᾱ | ἡλῐ́κω | ἡλῐ́κους | ἡλῐ́κᾱς | ἡλῐ́κᾰ | ||||
| Vocative | ἡλῐ́κε | ἡλῐ́κη | ἡλῐ́κον | ἡλῐ́κω | ἡλῐ́κᾱ | ἡλῐ́κω | ἡλῐ́κοι | ἥλῐκαι | ἡλῐ́κᾰ | ||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | ||||||||||
| ἡλῐ́κως | ἡλῐκώτερος | ἡλῐκώτᾰτος | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
References
- ἡλίκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἡλίκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “G2245”, 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.