τόσος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *totsos, from *totyos, from Proto-Indo-European *toti, adverb from *só. Cognate with Sanskrit तति (táti), Latin tot.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tó.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈto.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈto.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈto.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈto.sos/
Determiner
[edit]τόσος • (tósos)
- so much, so very, so great
- Synonym of ὅσος (hósos)
Inflection
[edit]Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | τόσος tósos |
τόση tósē |
τόσον tóson |
τόσω tósō |
τόσᾱ tósā |
τόσω tósō |
τόσοι tósoi |
τόσαι tósai |
τόσᾰ tósa | |||||
Genitive | τόσου tósou |
τόσης tósēs |
τόσου tósou |
τόσοιν tósoin |
τόσαιν tósain |
τόσοιν tósoin |
τόσων tósōn |
τόσων tósōn |
τόσων tósōn | |||||
Dative | τόσῳ tósōi |
τόσῃ tósēi |
τόσῳ tósōi |
τόσοιν tósoin |
τόσαιν tósain |
τόσοιν tósoin |
τόσοις tósois |
τόσαις tósais |
τόσοις tósois | |||||
Accusative | τόσον tóson |
τόσην tósēn |
τόσον tóson |
τόσω tósō |
τόσᾱ tósā |
τόσω tósō |
τόσους tósous |
τόσᾱς tósās |
τόσᾰ tósa | |||||
Vocative | τόσε tóse |
τόση tósē |
τόσον tóson |
τόσω tósō |
τόσᾱ tósā |
τόσω tósō |
τόσοι tósoi |
τόσαι tósai |
τόσᾰ tósa | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
τόσως tósōs |
τοσώτερος tosṓteros |
τοσώτᾰτος tosṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Greek: τόσος (tósos)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τόσος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1496-7
Further reading
[edit]- “τόσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τόσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τόσος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τόσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τόσος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τόσος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek τόσος (tósos).
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]τόσος • (tósos) m demonstrative
- so, so much, such
- τόσο μεγάλο όσο ένας ελέφαντας ― tóso megálo óso énas eléfantas ― as big as an elephant
- 1962, Mikis Theodorakis (lyrics and music), “Απρίλη Μου [April of Mine]”, in Το Τραγούδι Του Νεκρού Αδελφού [The Dead Brother's Song], performed by Grigoris Bithikotsis:
- Καρδιά μου πώς, καρδιά μου πώς αντέχεις,
Μέσα στην τόση αγάπη και στις τόσες ομορφιές.- Kardiá mou pós, kardiá mou pós antécheis,
Mésa stin tósi agápi kai stis tóses omorfiés. - Heart of mine, how, heart of mine, how do you stand it,
Among such love and such beauties.
- Kardiá mou pós, kardiá mou pós antécheis,
Declension
[edit]declension of 'τόσος'
Derived terms
[edit]- τόσο (tóso, “so much”) (adverb)
- τοσοδά (tosodá, “that small, that tiny”)
- τοσοδούλης (tosodoúlis, “that small, that tiny”)
- τοσούλης (tosoúlis, “that small, that tiny”)
Related terms
[edit]- όσος (ósos)
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