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χαροπότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαροπότης χαροπότητος

Structure: χαροποτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from xaropo/s

Sense

  1. brightness of eye: a light-blue colour

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ μάλιστα μὲν εἰκάζοντο Γερμανικὰ γένη τῶν καθηκόντων ἐπὶ τὸν βόρειον ὠκεανὸν εἶναι τοῖσ μεγέθεσι τῶν σωμάτων καὶ τῇ χαροπότητι τῶν ὀμμάτων, καὶ ὅτι Κίμβρουσ ἐπονομάζουσι Γερμανοὶ τοὺσ λῃστάσ. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 11 3:2)
  • διὰ τὸ πένθοσ, φορεῖν δὲ τὰ λινᾶ διὰ τὴν χρόαν, ἣν τὸ λίνον ἀνθοῦν ἀνίησι τῇ περιεχούσῃ τὸν κόσμον αἰθερίῳ χαροπότητι προσεοικυῖαν. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 4 2:1)

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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