ὅσαι (hosai)

ὅσαι is an Ancient Greek form of ὅσος, meaning “as much as, as many as”. It is the nominative plural feminine adjective.

Found 457 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.831: νήσων, Αἰγαίῃ ὅσαι εἰν ἁλὶ ναιετάουσιν.

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 66.24: γύναικες δʼ ἐλέλυσδον ὄσαι προγενέστεραι

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 199·3: … ὥστε, ἐπειδὰν μετατίθενται πρὸς τὸν φιλόσαρκον καὶ ἡδονικὸν βίον, ὑπάγειν αὐτοὺς τῷ τῶν πορνευόντων ἐπιτιμίῳ. Ὅσαι γυναῖκες, ἐν αἱρέσει οὖσαι, παρθενίαν ὡμολόγησαν, εἶτα μετὰ ταῦτα γάμον ἀνθείλοντο, οὐχ ἡγοῦμαι χρῆναι καταδι …

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.