The corpus record

ὡσανεί

osanei

as if, as it were

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Esther 1 · 1.81/10k
Meditations 2 · 0.69/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4 · 0.37/10k
Metaphysics 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — LSJ

as if, as it were

as if, as it were, with Verbs, τὸ . . πνεῦμα ὡσανεὶ προδιαλύεται Id. Pr. 934b6; πόλις ἥτις ὡ. πρόσχημα . . ἦν Plb. 3.15.3; μήτε βλέπειν μήτʼ ἀκούειν, ἀλλʼ ὡ. βλέπειν καὶ ὡ. ἀκούειν Plu. Sollert. 2.961f; with a part., ὡ. προκαλούμενος Plb. 1.46.11; with Nouns, ὡ. σάρκες Arist. Metaph. 1036b10; ὡ. ἀμμῶδες Id. Mir. 831b30; μέγεθος ὡ. βοῦς ib. 832b15, etc.

In the wild

ὡσανεὶ · hōsanei Aristotle, Metaphysics book 7 (DIORISIS sentence 1901)
ὡσανεὶ · hōsanei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8975)
ὡσανεὶ · hōsanei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5886)
ὡσανεὶ · hōsanei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5886)
ὡσανεὶ · hōsanei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5822)
ὡσανεὶ · hōsanei Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.3.2 (DIORISIS sentence 320)

6 of 8 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

Ask the librarian

Ask about ὡσανεί →