ποσόν (poson)

ποσόν is an Ancient Greek form of πόσος, meaning “how much? how many?”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

It can also be a form of ποσός, “of what size? how much?”.

Found 283 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.151: … ς ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ τῶν Φυσικῶν, καὶ μὴ κατὰ περιγραφὴν καὶ παράθεσιν· καὶ γὰρ εἰς πέλαγος ὀλίγος οἶνος βληθεὶς ἐπὶ ποσὸν ἀντιπαρεκταθήσεται, εἶτα συμφθαρήσεται. Φασὶ δʼ εἶναι καί τινας δαίμονας ἀνθρώπων συμπάθειαν ἔχοντας, ἐπόπτας …

Euripides, Cyclops 138: σὺ δ’ ἀντιδώσεις, εἰπέ μοι, χρυσὸν πόσον;

Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones 8.4: … ν χρόνον μέτρον εἶναι κινήσεως καὶ ἀριθμὸν κατὰ τὸ πρότερον καὶ ὕστερον ὡς Ἀριστοτέλης εἶπεν, ἤ τὸ ἐν κινήσει ποσόν ὡς Σπεύσιππος, ἢ διάστημα κινήσεως ἄλλο δʼ οὐδὲν ὡς ἔνιοι τῶν Στωικῶν ἀπὸ συμβεβηκότος ὁριζόμενοι τὴν δʼ οὐσί …

All forms of πόσος (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.