ὅσπερ

Ancient Greek

From ὅς (hós) + περ (per).

ὅσπερ • (hósper)

the very man who, the very thing which
- c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.524
- c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.101
used after adjectives of resemblance
- 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.42
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 1499
- c. 370 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.4.34
- 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.74

Irregular declension of ὅσπερ; ἥπερ; ὅπερ (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ὅσπερ hósper	ἥπερ hḗper	ὅπερ hóper	ὥπερ hṓper	ᾱ̔́περ hā́per	ὥπερ hṓper	οἵπερ hoíper	αἵπερ haíper	ᾰ̔́περ hắper
Genitive	οὗπερ hoûper	ἧσπερ hêsper	οὗπερ hoûper	οἷνπερ hoînper	αἷνπερ haînper	οἷνπερ hoînper	ὧνπερ hônper	ὧνπερ hônper	ὧνπερ hônper
Dative	ᾧπερ hōîper	ᾗπερ hēîper	ᾧπερ hōîper	οἷνπερ hoînper	αἷνπερ haînper	οἷνπερ hoînper	οἷσπερ hoîsper	αἷσπερ haîsper	οἷσπερ hoîsper
Accusative	ὅνπερ hónper	ἥνπερ hḗnper	ὅπερ hóper	ὥπερ hṓper	ᾱ̔́περ hā́per	ὥπερ hṓper	οὕσπερ hoúsper	ᾱ̔́σπερ hā́sper	ᾰ̔́περ hắper
Vocative	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	ᾗπερ hēîper			—			—
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Irregular declension of ὅσπερ; ἥπερ; ὅπερ (Ionic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ὅσπερ hósper	ἥπερ hḗper	ὅπερ hóper	ὥπερ hṓper	ᾱ̔́περ hā́per	ὥπερ hṓper	οἵπερ hoíper	αἵπερ haíper	ᾰ̔́περ hắper
Genitive	οὗπερ hoûper	ἧσπερ hêsper	οὗπερ hoûper	οἷνπερ hoînper	αἷνπερ haînper	οἷνπερ hoînper	ὧνπερ hônper	ἕωνπερ ὧνπερ héōnper hônper	ὧνπερ hônper
Dative	ᾧπερ hōîper	ᾗπερ hēîper	ᾧπερ hōîper	οἷνπερ hoînper	αἷνπερ haînper	οἷνπερ hoînper	οἱσῐ́περ οἷσῐπερ οἷσπερ hoisĭ́per hoîsĭper hoîsper	ᾑσῐ́περ ᾗσῐπερ ᾗσπερ hēisĭ́per hēîsĭper hēîsper	οἱσῐ́περ οἷσῐπερ οἷσπερ hoisĭ́per hoîsĭper hoîsper
Accusative	ὅνπερ hónper	ἥνπερ hḗnper	ὅπερ hóper	ὥπερ hṓper	ᾱ̔́περ hā́per	ὥπερ hṓper	οὕσπερ hoúsper	ᾱ̔́σπερ hā́sper	ᾰ̔́περ hắper
Vocative	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	ᾗπερ hēîper			—			—
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

“ὅσπερ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ὅσπερ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ὅσπερ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ὅσπερ in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
“ὅσπερ”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3746 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- which idem, page 976.
- who idem, page 977.