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χιτώνιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: χιτώνιον χιτώνιου

Structure: χιτωνι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: xitw/n의 지소사

Sense

  1. a woman's frock or shift

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

  • Κιμμερικὰ χιτώνια,ἴσα καὶ ὅμοια τοῖσ θώραξιν, τὴν δὲ χρόαν οἳ μὲν κόκκου, οἳ δὲ ὑακίνθου, οἳ δὲ ἄλλῃ καὶ ἄλλῃ πεποικιλμένα· (Arrian, chapter 34 9:1)
  • ἄγε νυν ἀναστέλλεσθ’ ἄνω τὰ χιτώνια· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Prologue 7:25)
  • ταῦτ’ αὐτὰ γάρ τοι κἄσθ’ ἃ σώσειν προσδοκῶ, τὰ κροκωτίδια καὶ τὰ μύρα χαἰ περιβαρίδεσ χἤγχουσα καὶ τὰ διαφανῆ χιτώνια. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 2:1)
  • Κρατίνῳ τῷ Τιμοθέου μὲν ἀδελφῷ, ἐμῷ δ’ ἑταίρῳ, θώρακα δωρησώμεθα ὁπλιτικὸν τῶν μαλακῶν τῶν πεζῶν, καὶ ταῖσ κέβητοσ θυγατράσι χιτώνια τρία ἑπταπήχη, μὴ τῶν πολυτελῶν τῶν Ἀμοργίνων, ἀλλὰ τῶν Σικελικῶν τῶν λινῶν. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 13 27:1)
  • ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ χιτώνια τῶν γυναικείων ἀμπεχόμενοι, μεθύοντασ ἀπομιμούμενοι κώμῳ χρωμένουσ μετὰ γυναικῶν. (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 30 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a woman's frock or shift

Related

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

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