Ancient Greek

Adverb

ὡς • ‎(hōs) (relative adverb)

1. the introduction to similes
   1. like as, as, just as
   2. according as
2. (with adverbial clauses)
   1. (parenthetically) to qualify a general statement; as it seems
   2. (in elliptical phrases) so far as....
   3. (attached to the object of a verb) as
3. (to limit or augment the force of adverbs)

Conjunction

ὡς • ‎(hōs)

1. (subordinating conjunction or complementizer, introducing dependent or subordinate clause)
2. (with noun clauses) introducing a clause expressing a fact: that (with indicative or optative)
3. (final) introducing a clause expressing an end or purpose: that, so that, in order that, so (with subjunctive or optative)
4. (consequential) introducing a clause expressing a result: so that
5. (causal) as, since, because
6. (temporal) when
7. (modal) how
8. (local) where

Etymology 2

From the demonstrative pronoun ὁ ‎(ho) +‎ -ως ‎(-ōs, adverbial suffix).

Adverb

ὡς • ‎(hōs) (demonstrative adverb)

1. in καὶ ὧς: even so, nevertheless
2. in comparisons, ὥς ‎(hṓs)... ὡς ‎(hōs) or ὡς ‎(hōs)... ὣς ‎(hṑs): so... as...
3. thus, for instance

Alternative forms

• ὧς ‎(hôs)

References

• ὡς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὡς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὡς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὡς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ὡς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ὡς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5613”, 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.
  • about idem, page 2.
  • among idem, page 27.
  • as idem, page 42.
  • because idem, page 68.
  • before idem, page 69.
  • even idem, page 284.
  • for idem, page 334.
  • how idem, page 408.
  • however idem, page 408.
  • like idem, page 491.
  • nearly idem, page 553.
  • order idem, page 578.
  • prepare idem, page 635.
  • presence idem, page 636.
  • since idem, page 777.
  • so idem, page 790.
  • that idem, page 864.
  • to idem, page 878.
  • when idem, page 975.