ὅστις

From ὅς (hós, “who, which”, relative pronoun) +‎ τῐς (tis, “someone, anyone”, indefinite pronoun).

ὅστῐς • (hóstis)

1. indefinite relative pronoun: whoever, whichever; anyone who, anything which; someone who, something which
2. indirect interrogative pronoun corresponding to direct interrogative τίς (tís), τί (tí): who, what, which
   1. replaces τίς (tís), τί (tí) when someone repeats a question asked by another person
      • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 197–198:

        Χάρων   […] οὗτος τί ποιεῖς;
        Διόνυσος   ὅ τι ποιῶ;

        Khárōn   […] hoûtos tí poieîs?
        Diónusos   hó ti poiô?

        Charon: This man, what are you doing?
        Dionysus: What am I doing?

• “ὅστις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὅστις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὅστις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “ὅστις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3748 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • adopted idem, page 13.
  • else idem, page 265.
  • which idem, page 976.
  • whichever, whichsoever idem, page 976.
  • who idem, page 977.
  • whoever idem, page 977.
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 339