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χιών

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χιών χιόνος

Structure: χιων (Stem)

Etym.: From Root XI, cf. xei=ma, Lat. hiems.

Sense

  1. snow
  2. melted snow, ice water

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 δῆλόν ἐστι μάλιστα περὶ τὰσ χιόνασ· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 11 3:1)
  • ὅθεν ἥκιστα τὰσ χιόνασ καὶ τὸ συνθλιβόμενον ὑγρὸν ἀπ’ αὐτῶν οἱ σφόδρα ψυχροῦ δεόμενοι κινοῦσιν· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 15 3:1)
  • αἱ δὲ κορυφαὶ χειμῶνοσ μὲν ἄβατοι, θέρουσ δὲ προσβαίνουσιν ὑποδούμενοι κεντρωτὰ ὠμοβόινα δίκην τυμπάνων πλατεῖα διὰ τὰσ χιόνασ καὶ τοὺσ κρυστάλλουσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 5 10:5)
  • τοῦ μὲν οὖν χειμῶνοσ ὕδωρ οὐκ ἰδεῖν ἀλλὰ χιόνασ μόνον· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 34:6)
  • Ποιησάμενοσ δὲ τὴν πορείαν διὰ τῆσ Ἀρκαδίασ, καὶ πολλὰσ ἀναδεξάμενοσ χιόνασ καὶ ταλαιπωρίασ ἐν ταῖσ περὶ τὸν Ὀλύγυρτον ὑπερβολαῖσ, τῇ τρίτῃ τῶν ἡμερῶν κατῆρε νύκτωρ εἰσ Καφύασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 4, chapter 70 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. snow

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