Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

χηλός

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χηλός χηλοῦ

Structure: χηλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a large chest or coffer

Declension

Second 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

  • ἔνθα δὲ χηλοὶ ἕστασαν, ἐν δ’ ἄρα τῇσι θυώδεα εἵματ’ ἔκειτο. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 21 3:5)

Synonyms

  1. a large chest or coffer

Related

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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