ὅλως

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) +‎ -ως (-ōs, “a suffix creating adverbs from adjective stems”)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hó.lɔːs/
(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/

Adverb

ὅλως • (hólōs)

Further reading

“ὅλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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