ὅσον (hoson)

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

Found 2,861 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.183: οἴδματος, οὐδὲ θοοὺς βάπτεν πόδας, ἀλλʼ ὅσον ἄκροις

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 1: Ὅσον, ὦ Ἑρμότιμε, τῷ βιβλίῳ καὶ τῇ τοῦ βαδίσματος σπουδῇ τεκμήρασθαι, παρὰ τὸν διδάσκαλον ἐπειγομένῳ ἔοικας. ἐνενό …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) praef.4·3: καὶ τίνες μετ’ ἐκεῖνον ἐν αὐτῇ ἐβασίλευσαν, καὶ οἶος ἕκαστος ἦν τοὺς τρόπους, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τὸ σέβας, καὶ ὄσον ἐκράτησε τῆς ἀρχῆς καὶ ὅπως μετήλλαξε τὴν ζωήν· τίνες τε τῆς ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει προέστησαν ἐκκλησίας, καὶ ἐ …

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.