οἷον (hoion)

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

It can also be a form of οἶος, “alone, only, lone”.

Found 5,325 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.282: τέκνον ἐμόν· τὸ γὰρ οἶον ἔην ἔτι λοιπὸν ἐέλδωρ

Plutarch, Caius Marius 1.3: … φύσεις ἢ τὰς πράξεις ἢ τὰ τοῦ σώματος εἴδη καὶ πάθη τίθεσθαι, τὸν Μακρῖνον καὶ τὸν Τουρκουᾶτον καὶ τὸν Σύλλαν οἶόν ἐστιν ὁ Μνήμων ἢ ὁ Γρυπὸς ἢ ὁ Καλλίνικος, εἰς μὲν οὖν ταῦτα πολλὰς δίδωσιν ἐπιχειρήσεις ἡ τῆς συνηθείας ἀνωμα …

Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae 19·2: … ικὸν τῆς κενῆς δόξης καὶ μανικόν, ὡς εἴρηται· τῇ μέντοι διαθέσει φρόνημα καὶ μένος πολυθαρσὲς ἐνέστω ἄτρομον, οἷὸν τʼ ἄνδρας ἐσέρχεται, οἳ περὶ πάτρης ἀνδράσι δυσμενέεσσι καὶ πράγμασι δυσκόλοις καὶ καιροῖς ἀντερείδουσι καὶ δ …

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.