πόσος

See also: ποσός

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *kʷotsos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoti, adverb from *kʷos. Compare the indefinite form ποσός (posós). Cognate with Latin quot.

πόσος • (pósos) m (feminine πόση, neuter πόσον); first/second declension

interrogative adjective of quantity: how much?, how many?, how big?, how great?, how far?, how long?

First and second declension of πόσος; πόση; πόσον (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	πόσος pósos	πόση pósē	πόσον póson	πόσω pósō	πόσᾱ pósā	πόσω pósō	πόσοι pósoi	πόσαι pósai	πόσᾰ pósa
Genitive	πόσου pósou	πόσης pósēs	πόσου pósou	πόσοιν pósoin	πόσαιν pósain	πόσοιν pósoin	πόσων pósōn	πόσων pósōn	πόσων pósōn
Dative	πόσῳ pósōi	πόσῃ pósēi	πόσῳ pósōi	πόσοιν pósoin	πόσαιν pósain	πόσοιν pósoin	πόσοις pósois	πόσαις pósais	πόσοις pósois
Accusative	πόσον póson	πόσην pósēn	πόσον póson	πόσω pósō	πόσᾱ pósā	πόσω pósō	πόσους pósous	πόσᾱς pósās	πόσᾰ pósa
Vocative	πόσε póse	πόση pósē	πόσον póson	πόσω pósō	πόσᾱ pósā	πόσω pósō	πόσοι pósoi	πόσαι pósai	πόσᾰ pósa
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	πόσως pósōs			ποσώτερος posṓteros			ποσώτᾰτος posṓtatos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“πόσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πόσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
G4214 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- amount idem, page 28.
- big idem, page 78.
- great idem, page 372.
- how idem, page 408.
- large idem, page 476.
- much idem, page 545.

πόσος • (pósos) m (feminine πόση, neuter πόσο) interrogative

how much? (questions of quantity and extent)
Πόσο κάνει; ― Póso kánei? ― How much?

Πόσο γάλα; ― Póso gála? ― How much milk?

Πόση ώρα είσαι εδώ; ― Pósi óra eísai edó? ― How long have you been here?
(in the plural) how many? (questions of quantity)
Πόσοι θέλετε καφέ; ― Pósoi thélete kafé? ― How many want coffee?

declension of 'πόσος'