ὅλος

See also: όλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οὖλος (oûlos) — Ionic, Homeric

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *solh₂wós, from *solh₂- (“whole”). Cognates include Sanskrit सर्व (sárva), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬬𐬀 (haurva), Latin salvus, sollus. Unrelated false cognate of English whole.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hó.los/ → /ˈo.los/ → /ˈo.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hó.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)o.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.los/

Adjective

ὅλος • (hólos) m (feminine ὅλη, neuter ὅλον); first/second declension

1. whole, entire, perfect, complete
2. absolute, utter
3. generally, on the whole
4. (with negative): at all
5. actually

Inflection

First and second declension of ὅλος; ὅλη; ὅλον (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ὅλος hólos	ὅλη hólē	ὅλον hólon		ὅλω hólō	ὅλᾱ hólā	ὅλω hólō		ὅλοι hóloi	ὅλαι hólai	ὅλᾰ hóla
Genitive		ὅλου hólou	ὅλης hólēs	ὅλου hólou		ὅλοιν hóloin	ὅλαιν hólain	ὅλοιν hóloin		ὅλων hólōn	ὅλων hólōn	ὅλων hólōn
Dative		ὅλῳ hólōi	ὅλῃ hólēi	ὅλῳ hólōi		ὅλοιν hóloin	ὅλαιν hólain	ὅλοιν hóloin		ὅλοις hólois	ὅλαις hólais	ὅλοις hólois
Accusative		ὅλον hólon	ὅλην hólēn	ὅλον hólon		ὅλω hólō	ὅλᾱ hólā	ὅλω hólō		ὅλους hólous	ὅλᾱς hólās	ὅλᾰ hóla
Vocative		ὅλε hóle	ὅλη hólē	ὅλον hólon		ὅλω hólō	ὅλᾱ hólā	ὅλω hólō		ὅλοι hóloi	ὅλαι hólai	ὅλᾰ hóla
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ὅλως hólōs				ὁλώτερος holṓteros				ὁλώτᾰτος holṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὅλως (hólōs)

Descendants

• Greek: όλος (ólos)
• → English: holo-

Further reading

• “ὅλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὅλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “ὅλος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3650 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • all idem, page 22.
  • entire idem, page 277.
  • livelong idem, page 496.
  • thorough idem, page 868.
  • thorough-going idem, page 868.
  • total idem, page 884.
  • universal idem, page 923.
  • whole idem, page 977.