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).
Pronunciation
    
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hɛː.lí.kos/
 - (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)e̝ˈli.kos/
 - (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈli.kos/
 - (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈli.kos/
 - (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈli.kos/
 
Adjective
    
ἡλῐ́κος • (hēlíkos) m (feminine ἡλῐ́κη, neuter ἡλῐ́κον); first/second declension
- (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, […]
 
 
 - ἀλλ’ ἐφ’ οἷς ἀδικοῦντά μ’ ἑώρα τὴν πόλιν, οὖσί γε τηλικούτοις ἡλίκα νῦν ἐτραγῴδει καὶ διεξῄει,  […] 
 
 - (indirect interrogative adjective) how big; extraordinarily big or small
 - (exclamatory adjective) how big!
 
Inflection
    
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | ἡλῐ́κος hēlíkos  | 
ἡλῐ́κη hēlíkē  | 
ἡλῐ́κον hēlíkon  | 
ἡλῐ́κω hēlíkō  | 
ἡλῐ́κᾱ hēlíkā  | 
ἡλῐ́κω hēlíkō  | 
ἡλῐ́κοι hēlíkoi  | 
ἡλῐ́και hēlíkai  | 
ἡλῐ́κᾰ hēlíka  | |||||
| Genitive | ἡλῐ́κου hēlíkou  | 
ἡλῐ́κης hēlíkēs  | 
ἡλῐ́κου hēlíkou  | 
ἡλῐ́κοιν hēlíkoin  | 
ἡλῐ́καιν hēlíkain  | 
ἡλῐ́κοιν hēlíkoin  | 
ἡλῐ́κων hēlíkōn  | 
ἡλῐ́κων hēlíkōn  | 
ἡλῐ́κων hēlíkōn  | |||||
| Dative | ἡλῐ́κῳ hēlíkōi  | 
ἡλῐ́κῃ hēlíkēi  | 
ἡλῐ́κῳ hēlíkōi  | 
ἡλῐ́κοιν hēlíkoin  | 
ἡλῐ́καιν hēlíkain  | 
ἡλῐ́κοιν hēlíkoin  | 
ἡλῐ́κοις hēlíkois  | 
ἡλῐ́καις hēlíkais  | 
ἡλῐ́κοις hēlíkois  | |||||
| Accusative | ἡλῐ́κον hēlíkon  | 
ἡλῐ́κην hēlíkēn  | 
ἡλῐ́κον hēlíkon  | 
ἡλῐ́κω hēlíkō  | 
ἡλῐ́κᾱ hēlíkā  | 
ἡλῐ́κω hēlíkō  | 
ἡλῐ́κους hēlíkous  | 
ἡλῐ́κᾱς hēlíkās  | 
ἡλῐ́κᾰ hēlíka  | |||||
| Vocative | ἡλῐ́κε hēlíke  | 
ἡλῐ́κη hēlíkē  | 
ἡλῐ́κον hēlíkon  | 
ἡλῐ́κω hēlíkō  | 
ἡλῐ́κᾱ hēlíkā  | 
ἡλῐ́κω hēlíkō  | 
ἡλῐ́κοι hēlíkoi  | 
ἡλῐ́και hēlíkai  | 
ἡλῐ́κᾰ hēlíka  | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ἡλῐ́κως hēlíkōs  | 
ἡλῐκώτερος hēlikṓteros  | 
ἡλῐκώτᾰτος hēlikṓtatos  | ||||||||||||
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See also
    
Ancient Greek correlatives (edit)
Further reading
    
- “ἡλίκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
 - “ἡλίκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
 - G2245 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.
 
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