οἵαν (hoian)

οἵαν is an Ancient Greek form of οἷος, meaning “such as, of what sort; alone”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 224 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.73.3: ῥηθήσεται δὲ οὐ παραιτήσεως μᾶλλον ἕνεκα ἢ μαρτυρίου καὶ δηλώσεως πρὸς οἵαν ὑμῖν πόλιν μὴ εὖ βουλευομένοις ὁ ἀγὼν καταστήσεται.

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 151.1: οἴαν τὰν ὐάκινθον ἐν ὄρρεσι ποίμενες ἄνδρες

Aesop, Fables 142: … ις ψυχαῖς ἐνῳκίσατο, καὶ ταύτας ἀναβακχεύων ἐπὶ μανίαν ἐρωτικὴν, μυρία ἀγαθὰ τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένος εἰργάσατο. Ὅἴαν μὲν οὖν ἴδῃς τινὰ βραδύν τε τὴν φύσιν καὶ πρὸς φιλίαν δυσκίνητον, νόησον, ὅτι τῶν Ἔρωτος ἐκείνου ξενίων οὐδαμ …

All forms of οἷος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.