ἡλίκος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῐ], η, ον,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[as big as]], πόσος τις; μικρός, ἡλίκος Μόλων Ar.''Ra.'' 55; <b class="b3">τί τοσοῦτον ὕβρισεν, ἡλίκον..</b>; D.21.147; τηλικοῦτος, ἡ. οὐδείς πω βασιλεύς Id.1.9.<br><span class="bld">2</span> of age, [[as old as]], ἄνδρα.. ἡλίκον Θουκυδίδην Ar. ''Ach.''703; <b class="b3">τοῖσιν ἡλίκοισι νῷν</b>, = [[τηλίκοις ἡλίκοι νώ]], Id.''Ec.''465; <b class="b3">οἱ ἡλίκοι</b> [[ἐγώ]], = <b class="b3">τηλίκοι ἡλίκοι ἐγώ</b>, Pl.''La.''180d: rare in Trag., <b class="b3">ὁρᾷς μὲν ἡμᾶς, ἡλίκοι..</b> of what various ages.., S.''OT''15.<br><span class="bld">3</span> in indirect questions, [[how big]], [[how great]], [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Characters|Char.]]''23.2, Crates Theb.18, etc.; ὁρῶν ἡ. ἐστὶ Φίλιππος D.6.6, cf. Pl.''Chrm.''154b; freq. in expressions of wonder, <b class="b3">θαυμάσι' ἡλίκα</b> [[extraordinarily great]], D.19.24; θαυμαστὸν ἡλίκον Id.24.122; μέγιστα ἡλίκα Luc.''Merc.Cond.''13; also, [[how small]], ἰδοὺ ἡλίκον πῦρ ἡλίκην ὕλην ἀνάπτει ''Ep.Jac.''3.5; ἂν ἴδω γὰρ ἡλίκον ἰχθὺν ὅσου τιμῶσι Antiph.166.6, cf. Luc.''Herm.''5.<br><span class="bld">4</span> in exclamations, ἡλίκον λαλεῖς Men.''Sam.''40. (Compd. of yo-, relat. Pron. stem (cf. [[ὅς]]), and -āli- (cf. [[ἧλιξ]]), with suffix -κο-; cf. [[πηλίκος]], [[τηλίκος]].)

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[as old]], [[as big]], relatives and indir. interrogative pron. (IA.).<br />Other forms: Dor. <b class="b3">ἁλ-</b> (TheoC.)<br />Derivatives: Beside it the demonstrative [[τηλίκος]], Dor. <b class="b3">ταλ-</b> [[thus old]], [[thus big]] (Il.) with [[τηλικόσδε]], [[τηλικοῦτος]] (Att.) and the interrogative [[πηλίκος]] [[how old?]], [[how big?]] (IA).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [645] <b class="b2">*kʷeh₂-li-</b> <b class="b2">how (big)?</b><br />Etymology: From the relative stem <b class="b3">ὁ-</b>, ἁ- (s. 1. [[ὅς]]) and a suffixal (<b class="b3">α)λικ-</b>; further s. [[πηλίκος]] and [[τηλίκος]]. A parallel formation is OCS [[je-likъ]] <b class="b2">(tantus) quantus</b>. Cf. also zu [[ἧλιξ]].