τόσος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τόσσος (tóssos) — Epic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *totsos, from *totyos, from Proto-Indo-European *toti, adverb from *só. Cognate with Sanskrit तति (táti), Latin tot.

Pronunciation

Determiner

τόσος • (tósos)

1. so much, so very, so great
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.528
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.410
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 680
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 866
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.546
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.321
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.100
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.144
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 705
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.213
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.379
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.80
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.686
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 711
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 277
   • 375 BCE – 275 BCE, Alexis 187.1
2. Synonym of ὅσος (hósos)
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 4.5
   • 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 15.11

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: τόσος (tósos)

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.
  • big idem, page 78.
  • great idem, page 372.
  • large idem, page 476.
  • much idem, page 545.
  • such idem, page 834.
• 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

   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.

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”)

Related terms

• όσος (ósos)