ὥσπερ
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ὡς (hōs, “as”) + περ (per, enclitic).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hɔ̌ːs.per/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)os.per/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈos.per/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈos.per/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈos.per/
Adverb
[edit]ὥσπερ • (hṓsper)
- like, as, even as, just as
- (to limit or modify an assertion) as it were
- (rarely of time)
- so long as, however long
- as soon as
- so long as, however long
- (after a comparative)
References
[edit]- “ὥσπερ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὥσπερ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὥσπερ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὥσπερ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ὥσπερ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5618 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.