ὦσι (osi)

ὦσι is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the 3rd person plural present active subjunctive.

It can also be a form of οὖς, “ear”.

Found 289 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.71.1: … οις τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀρκεῖν οἳ ἂν τῇ μὲν παρασκευῇ δίκαια πράσσωσι, τῇ δὲ γνώμῃ, ἢν ἀδικῶνται, δῆλοι ὦσι μὴ ἐπιτρέψοντες, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ τῷ μὴ λυπεῖν τε τοὺς ἄλλους καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀμυνόμενοι μὴ βλάπτεσθαι τὸ ἴσον νέμετε.

Euripides, Hippolytus 488: οὐ γὰρ τὰ τοῖσιν ὠσὶ τερπνὰ χρὴ λέγειν,

Sophocles, Electra 1062: ωσι, τάδʼ οὐκ ἐπʼ ἴσας τελοῦμεν;

All forms of εἰμί (conjugation 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.