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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

  • ἐὰν γὰρ ἀπολούσωμαι χιόνι καὶ ἀποκαθάρωμαι χερσὶ καθαραῖσ, (Septuagint, Liber Iob 9:30)
  • συντάσσων χιόνι. γίνου ἐπὶ γῆσ, καὶ χειμὼν ὑετόσ, καὶ χειμὼν ὑετῶν δυναστείασ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 37:6)
  • οὕτω δὴ τὸν ἐν Ἰλίῳ ναὸν καὶ θυόεντα βω‐ μὸν προύδωκασ Ἀχαιοῖσ, ὦ Ζεῦ, καὶ πελάνων φλόγα σμύρνησ αἰθερίασ τε κα‐ πνὸν καὶ Πέργαμον ἱερὰν Ἰδαῖά τ’ Ἰδαῖα κισσοφόρα νάπη χιόνι κατάρυτα ποταμίᾳ τέρμονα πρωτόβολόν θ’ ἁλίῳ, τὰν καταλαμπομέναν ζαθέαν θεράπναν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 11)
  • εἰ μὴ κατένειψε χιόνι τὴν Θρᾴκην ὅλην καὶ τοὺσ ποταμοὺσ ἔπηξ’, ὑπ’ αὐτὸν τὸν χρόνον, ὅτ’ ἐνθαδὶ Θέογνισ ἠγωνίζετο. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 5:5)
  • περὶ δὲ τῆσ ἑτέρασ πηγῆσ λέγει ὡσ θέρουσ ῥέει εἰκυῖα χαλάζῃ ἢ χιόνι ψυχρῇ ἢ ἐξ ὕδατοσ κρυστάλλῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 14 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. snow

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