Ancient Greek

Pronoun

ὅστις • ‎(hóstis)

1. indefinite relative pronoun: whoever, whichever; anyone who, anything which; someone who, something which
2. indirect interrogative pronoun corresponding to direct interrogative τίς ‎(tís), τί ‎(tí): who, what, which
   1. replaces τίς ‎(tís), τί ‎(tí) when someone repeats a question asked by another person
      • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 197–198

        Χάρων   ... οὗτος τί ποιεῖς;
        Διόνυσος   ὅ τι ποιῶ;

        Charon: This man, what are you doing?
        Dionysus: What am I doing?

Inflection

References

• ὅστις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὅστις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὅστις in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὅστις in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3748”, 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.
  • adopted idem, page 13.
  • else idem, page 265.
  • which idem, page 976.
  • whichever, whichsoever idem, page 976.
  • who idem, page 977.
  • whoever idem, page 977.
• BDAG
• Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 339