ὅσα (hosa)

ὅσα is an Ancient Greek form of ὅσος, meaning “as much as, as many as”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 4,010 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1067: καί οἱ ἀπὸ βλεφάρων ὅσα δάκρυα χεῦαν ἔραζε,

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 10.1.150: [] Τὸ τῆς φύσεως δίκαιόν ἐστι σύμβολον τοῦ συμφέροντος εἰς τὸ μὴ βλάπτειν ἀλλήλους μηδὲ βλάπτεσθαι. [] Ὅσα τῶν ζῴων μὴ ἠδύνατο συνθήκας ποιεῖσθαι τὰς ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ βλάπτειν ἄλλα μηδὲ βλάπτεσθαι, πρὸς ταῦτα οὐθὲν ἦν δίκ …

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 82.11: κἄλθʼ ὄσᾳ [μαίνης μʼ ἄδεα καλλόνᾳ].

All forms of ὅσος (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.