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ὁκόσος (hokosos)

ὁκόσος means “how many (Ionic ὁπόσος)”.

Ancient Greek word, found 80 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Hippocrates, Prognosticon 18: Ὁκόσοισι δὲ ἀποστάσιες γίγνονται ἐκ τῶν περιπλευμονικῶν νουσημάτων παρὰ τὰ ὦτα, καὶ ἐκπυέουσιν, ἢ ἐς τὰ κάτω χωρία, κα …

Hippocrates, Aphorismi 4.23: Ὁκόσοισιν ἐκ νουσημάτων ὀξέων ἢ πολυχρονίων, ἢ ἐκ τρωμάτων, ἢ ἄλλως πως λελεπτυσμένοισι χολὴ μέλαινα ἢ ὁκοῖον αἷμα μέλαν ὑπέλθῃ, τῇ ὑστεραίῃ ἀποθνήσκουσιν.

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.