ἡλίκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *yós, like the basic relative pronoun ὅς (hós), + the same suffix as Latin tālis (“such”) and quālis (“[such] as”) +‎ -κός (-kós, adjective suffix). Cf. ἧλιξ (hêlix).

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Adjective

ἡλῐ́κος • (hēlíkos) m (feminine ἡλῐ́κη, neuter ἡλῐ́κον); first/second declension

  1. (relative adjective) as big or great as, as old as
    • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 13:
      ἀλλ’ ἐφ’ οἷς ἀδικοῦντά μ’ ἑώρα τὴν πόλιν, οὖσί γε τηλικούτοις ἡλίκα νῦν ἐτραγῴδει καὶ διεξῄει, […]
      all’ eph’ hoîs adikoûntá m’ heṓra tḕn pólin, oûsí ge tēlikoútois hēlíka nûn etragṓidei kaì diexḗiei, […]
      But against whatever wrongs he saw me commit against the city, if they really are as great as he just now dramatized and recounted in detail, […]
  2. (indirect interrogative adjective) how big; extraordinarily big or small
  3. (exclamatory adjective) how big!

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