Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

χόριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: χόριον χόριου

Structure: χορι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the membrane that encloses the fetus, the afterbirth, a dish made by stuffing it with honey and milk, haggis, canis a corio nunquam absterrebitur uncto).

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

  • καὶ τὸ χόριον αὐτῆσ τὸ ἐξελθὸν διὰ τῶν μηρῶν αὐτῆσ καὶ τὸ τέκνον, ὃ ἐὰν τέκῃ. καταφάγεται γὰρ αὐτὰ διά τὴν ἔνδειαν πάντων κρυφῇ ἐν τῇ στενοχωρίᾳ σου καὶ ἐν τῇ θλίψει σου, ᾗ θλίψει σε ὁ ἐχθρόσ σου ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσί σου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 28:57)
  • τὸν αὐτὸν δὲ τοῦτον καλούμενον εὑρίσκω καὶ Περσικὸν καὶ χόριον. (Arrian, chapter 23 2:3)
  • καὶ αὖ ὧδε ἐροῦμεν τὸν Λάκωνα ἐξέλισσε, ἢ τὸν χόριον, ἢ τὸν Μακεδόνα. (Arrian, chapter 31 6:1)
  • εἶτ’ ἀντακαῖον ἰχθύων τάριχοσ ἢ κρεῶν, βατανίων εὐθέωσ δίπυρον παραθήσω κᾠὸν ἐπιτετμημένον, πῦον, μέλιτοσ ὀξύβαφον ἐπὶ ταγηνιῶν, τυροῦ τροφάλια χλωρὰ Κυθνίου παρατεμὼν, βοτρύδιόν τι, χόριον, ἐν ποτηρίῳ γλυκὺν τὸ τοιοῦτον γὰρ ἀεί πωσ μέροσ ἐπιπαίζεται, κεφαλὴ δὲ δείπνου γίνεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 12 2:3)
  • οὐ χόριον οὐδὲ πυὸσ οὐδ’ ἧπαρ κάπρου οὐδὲ σχαδόνεσ οὐδ’ ἠτριαῖον δέλφακοσ οὐδ’ ἐγχέλειον οὐδὲ κάραβον μέγαν γυναιξὶ κοπιώσαισ ἐπεχορηγήσατε; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 64 2:8)

Related

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

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