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ὡσεί

osei

as if, as though

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Where it lives

  • Psalmi 67 · 19.6/10k
  • Jonas 2 · 19.01/10k
  • Daniel (LXX) 17 · 16.18/10k
  • Odae 6 · 14.76/10k
  • Judices (cod. Al.) 10 · 6.84/10k
  • Numeri 14 · 6.06/10k
  • Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
  • Luke 9 · 4.67/10k
  • Exodus 11 · 4.65/10k
  • Deuteronomium 10 · 4.47/10k
  • Trojan Women 3 · 4.24/10k
  • Hebrews 2 · 3.98/10k

Densest 12 of 39 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

as if, as though

as if, as though; with various moods:

I

c. opt., ἴσαν, ὡς εἴ τε πυρὶ χθὼν πᾶσα νέμοιτο Il. 2.780, cf. 11.389, Od. 9.314, etc.

2

ὡσεί τε c. subj., ἐρίλησʼ ὡς εἴ τε πατὴρ ὃν παῖδα φιλήσῃ Il. 9.481.

3

ὡς εἰ or ὡς εἴ τε, c. indic., ἕπονθʼ ὡς εἴ τε μετὰ κτίλον ἕσπετο μῆλα Il. 13.492; φιάλαν ὡς εἴ τις . . δωρήσεται Pi. O. 7.1.

II like, just as

in comparisons, like, just as, Il. 16.59, Od. 7.36, Hes. Sc. 290, B. 11.1, S. Ant. 653, El. 234 (lyr.), etc.: c. part., Il. 5.374, Hes. Sc. 194; ὡς εἴ τε Il. 11.474; with verb supplied, Od. 14.254, Pi. P. 4.112; ὡσεί περ c. part., Hes. Sc. 189, cf. Theoc. 25.163 (nisi leg. εἰ περὶ σεῦ) ; ὡς εἴ πέρ τε with a noun, h.Cer. 215.

2 as it were

ὡς εἴτε as it were, Pi. P. 1.44.

III about

with Numerals, or measures of time and space, about, ὡσεὶ τριήκοντα σταδίων μάλιστά κῃ Hdt. 7.109, cf. X. HG 1.2.9, LXX Ge. 24.55, al., Ev.Matt. 14.21, al.

In the wild

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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.

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