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

  • μησὶ γὰρ ἐννέα που ταῖσ πλείσταισ τῶν γυναικῶν ἐν αὐταῖσ τελειοῦται τὰ κυήματα, μεμυκυίαισ μὲν ἅπαντι τῷ αὐχένι, περιεχούσαισ δὲ πανταχόθεν αὐτὰ σὺν τῷ χορίῳ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 32)
  • δοιαὶ γὰρ αἱ σχίδεσ μὲν αἱ ἐπηλλαγμέναι χιτῶνοσ· ὅδε οὖν ἀφίσταται μὲν καὶ Ῥεύματι, καὶ ἐντρωσμῷ καὶ βιαίῳ τόκῳ, εὖτε ἐπὶ τῷ χορίῳ προσπέφυκεν αὐτέη. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 292)
  • χαλεπὸν χορίω κύνα γεῦσαι. (Theocritus, Idylls, 9)

Related

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

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