# 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

* IPA: /tó.sos/ → /ˈto.sos/ → /ˈto.sos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /tó.sos/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈto.sos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈto.sos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈto.sos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈto.sos/

### Determiner

τόσος • (tósos)
* 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
* Synonym of ὅσος (hósos)
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 4.5
** 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 15.11

#### Derived terms

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

#### Descendants

* Greek: τόσος (tósos)

#### See also

| type | interrogative | indefinite | (medial) demonstrative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative | relative | indefinite relative | identity | other |
| basic | τίς | τις, ἔνιοι | †ὁ, οὗτος | ὅδε | ἐκεῖνος | ὅς | ὅστις | ὁ αὐτός (αὑτός), ὁμός | ἕτερος, ἄλλος |
| dual | πότερος | πότερος, ποτερός | | | | ὁπότερος | ὁπότερος | | |
| quality | ποῖος | ποιός | †τοῖος, τοιοῦτος | τοιόσδε | | οἷος | ὁποῖος | ὅμοιος | ἑτεροῖος, ἀλλοῖος |
| quantity | πόσος | ποσός | †τόσος, τοσοῦτος | τοσόσδε | | ὅσος | ὁπόσος | | |
| manner | πῶς | πως | †τώς, †ὥς, οὕτως | ὧδε | | ὡς | ὅπως | ὁμῶς | ἑτέρως, ἄλλως |
| method, path, place | πῇ | πῃ | τῇ, ταύτῃ | τῇδε | ἐκείνῃ | ᾗ | ὅπῃ | | ἄλλῃ |
| place | ποῦ, †πόθι | που, †ποθι | ἐνταῦθα | ἐνθάδε | ἐκεῖ, ἔνθα, †ἐκεῖθι | οὗ, ἔνθα, †ὅθι | ὅπου, †ὁπόθι | αὐτόθι, ὁμοῦ | ἄλλοθι |
| source | πόθεν | ποθεν | †τόθεν, ἔνθεν, ἐντεῦθεν | ἐνθένδε | ἐκεῖθεν | ὅθεν | ὁπόθεν | †ὁμόθεν | ἄλλοθεν |
| destination | ποῖ, †πόσε | ποι | ἔνθα, ἐνταῦθα | ἐνθάδε, δεῦρο | ἐκεῖσε | οἷ | ὅποι, †ὁπόσε | αὐτόσε, ὁμόσε | ἄλλοσε |
| time | πότε, πῆμος | ποτέ, ποτε, τοτέ, ἐνίοτε | τότε, τῆμος | τημόσδε | | ὅτε, ἦμος | ὁπότε, †ὁππῆμος | ἅμα | ἄλλοτε |
| exact time | πηνίκα | | †τηνίκα, τηνικαῦτα | τηνικάδε | | ἡνίκα | ὁπηνίκα | αὐτίκα | |
| duration of time | | | τέως | | | ἕως | | | |
| size, age | πηλίκος | πηλίκος | †τηλίκος, τηλικοῦτος | τηλικόσδε | | ἡλίκος | ὁπηλίκος | ὁμῆλιξ | |
| repetition | ποσάκις, ποσίνδα | ποσάκις | τουτάκις, τοσάκις | | | †ὁσάκις ὁποσάκις | ὁποσάκις | | |
| multiplication | ποσαπλάσιος | | | | | ὁσαπλάσιος, ὁσαπλασίων | | | |
| order | πόστος | ποστός | | | | | ὁπόστος | | |
| † Forms rarely or never used in Classical Attic prose Relative also used in exclamations; either relative or indefinite relative used in indirect questions. ||||||||||

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τόσος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1496-7

### Further reading

* “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: /ˈtosos/
* Hyphenation: τό‧σος

### Pronoun

τόσος • (tósos) m demonstrative
* 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.

#### 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)