πόσαι (posai)

πόσαι is an Ancient Greek form of πόσος, meaning “how much? how many?”. It is the nominative plural feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of ποσός, “of what size? how much?”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or adjective.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

New Testament, Acts 21.20: οἱ δὲ ἀκούσαντες ἐδόξαζον τὸν θεόν, εἶπάν τε αὐτῷ Θεωρεῖς, ἀδελφέ, πόσαι μυριάδες εἰσὶν ἐν τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις τῶν πεπιστευκότων, καὶ πάντες ζηλωταὶ τοῦ νόμου ὑπάρχουσιν·

Aristotle, Metaphysics 3.6: … ἄττα οἷα λέγουσι τὰ εἴδη τινές, οὐκ ἔσται μία ἀριθμῷ ἀλλʼ εἴδει οὐσία, οὐδʼ αἱ ἀρχαὶ τῶν ὄντων ἀριθμῷ ἔσονται ποσαί τινες ἀλλὰ εἴδει·—εἰ οὖν τοῦτο ἀναγκαῖον, καὶ τὰ εἴδη ἀναγκαῖον διὰ τοῦτο εἶναι τιθέναι. καὶ γὰρ εἰ μὴ καλῶς …

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.