τόσος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *totsos, from *totyos, from Proto-Indo-European *toti, adverb from *só. Cognate with Latin tot.

Pronunciation

 

Determiner

τόσος (tósos)

  1. so much, so very, so great
  2. Synonym of ὅσος (hósos)

Inflection

Derived terms

  • ἐκ τόσου (ek tósou)
  • ἐς τόσον (es tóson)
  • ὅσῳ μᾶλλον...τόσῳ (hósōi mâllon...tósōi)
  • τόσον (tóson)
  • τόσως (tósōs)

See also

References

  • 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τόσος (tósos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtosos/
  • Hyphenation: τό‧σος

Pronoun

τόσος (tósos) m  demonstrative

  1. so, so much, such
    • 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.

Declension

Derived terms

  • τόσο (tóso, so much) (adverb)
  • τοσοδά (tosodá, that small, that tiny)
  • τοσοδούλης (tosodoúlis, that small, that tiny)
  • τοσούλης (tosoúlis, that small, that tiny)
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