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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

  • ^ οἱο͂ν ἐκεῖνα πῶσ οἰεί κατὰ γῆσ δῦναι ηὐχόμην ἀκούων σου ἐπιδεικνυμένου, ὅτε χιτώνιον μὲν καὶ τὸ ἀνδρεῖον ᾤου λέγεσθαι, δουλάρια δὲ καὶ τοὺσ ἄρρενασ τῶν ἀκολούθων ἀπεκάλεισ, ἃ τίσ οὐκ οἶδεν ὅτι χιτώνιον μὲν γυναικὸσ ἐσθήσ, δουλάρια δὲ τὰ θήλεα καλοῦσιν ; (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 25:2)
  • ἐπειδὰν δέ ποτε διὰ μακροῦ τοῦ χρόνου Κρονίων ἢ Παναθηναίων ἐπιστάντων πέμπηταὶ τί σοι ἐφεστρίδιον ἄθλιον ἢ χιτώνιον ὑπόσαθρον, ἐνταῦθα μάλιστα πολλὴν δεῖ καὶ μεγάλην γενέσθαι τὴν πομπήν. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 37:1)
  • τὸ τῆσ γυναικὸσ δ’ ἀμπέχει χιτώνιον; (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 1:19)
  • καὶ ταῖσ ἀδελφαῖσ ἀγοράσαι χιτώνιον ἐκέλευσεν ἂν τῇ μητρί θ’ ἱματίδιον· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode24)
  • "ἀφεὶσ δὲ αὖ τοὺσ τηλικούτουσ καὶ τοιούτουσ ἄνδρασ καὶ πράξεισ λαμπρὰσ καὶ λόγουσ σεμνοὺσ καὶ σχῆμα εὐπρεπὲσ καὶ τιμὴν καὶ δόξαν καὶ ἔπαινον καὶ προεδρίασ καὶ δύναμιν καὶ ἀρχὰσ καὶ τὸ ἐπὶ λόγοισ εὐδοκιμεῖν καὶ τὸ ἐπὶ συνέσει εὐδαιμονίζεσθαι, χιτώνιόν τι πιναρὸν ἐνδύσῃ καὶ σχῆμα δουλοπρεπὲσ ἀναλήψῃ καὶ μοχλία καὶ γλυφεῖα καὶ κοπέασ καὶ κολαπτῆρασ ἐν ταῖν χεροῖν ἕξεισ κάτω νενευκὼσ εἰσ τὸ ἔργον, χαμαιπετὴσ καὶ χαμαίζηλοσ καὶ πάντα τρόπον ταπεινόσ, ἀνακύπτων δὲ οὐδέποτε οὐδὲ ἀνδρῶδεσ οὐδὲ ἐλεύθερον οὐδὲν ἐπινοῶν, ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν ἔργα ὅπωσ εὔρυθμα καὶ εὐσχήμονα ἔσται σοι προνοῶν, ὅπωσ δὲ αὐτὸσ εὔρυθμόσ τε καὶ κόσμιοσ ἔσῃ, ἥκιστα πεφροντικώσ, ἀλλ’ ἀτιμότερον ποιῶν σεαυτὸν λίθων. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 8:13)

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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