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οἷσιν (hoisin)

οἷσιν is an Ancient Greek form of ὅς, meaning “who, which, that (relative); his own”. It is the dative plural masculine pronoun.

It can also be a form of ἑός, “his, her, its own”.

Found 183 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.753: δειδυῖαν ταύρων κρατερὸν μένος, οἷσιν ἔμελλεν

Aristophanes, Knights 468: καὶ ταῦτʼ ἐφʼ οἷσίν ἐστι συμφυσώμενα

Plato, Cratylus 420: … ὅπῃ ἔχει τὰ πράγματα πορεύεται, ἢ τῇ ἀπὸ τοῦ τόξου βολῇ. ἔοικε δὲ τούτῳ μᾶλλον. ἡ γοῦν οἴησις τούτῳ συμφωνεῖ. οἶσιν γὰρ τῆς ψυχῆς ἐπὶ πᾶν πρᾶγμα, οἷόν ἐστιν ἕκαστον τῶν ὄντων, δηλούσῃ προσέοικεν, ὥσπερ γε καὶ ἡ βουλή πως τὴν …

All forms of ὅς (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.