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χροιά

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χροιά χροιάς

Structure: χροι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: xrw/s

Sense

  1. the surface of a body, the skin; the body
  2. the superficial appearance, colour, the colour of the skin, the complexion

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χροιά χροιᾱ́ χροιαί
Genitive χροιᾶς χροιαῖν χροιῶν
Dative χροιᾷ χροιαῖν χροιαῖς
Accusative χροιᾱ́ν χροιᾱ́ χροιᾱ́ς
Vocative χροιᾱ́ χροιᾱ́ χροιαί

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

  • ὅτε μου φροῦδα τὰ χρήματα, φρούδη χροιά, φρούδη ψυχή, φρούδη δ’ ἐμβάσ· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics8)
  • "ἐπιδημήσαντί μοι οἱ Ἄσσιοι παρέστησαν χοῖρον ἔχοντα τὸ μὲν ὕψοσ δύο καὶ ἡμίσουσ πήχεων, ὅλον δ’ ἄρτιον πρὸσ τὸ μῆκοσ, τῇ χροιᾷ χιόνινον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 17 6:3)
  • ἐν πλάτει τὸ ὁμαλόν, ἴσωσ ἐν ἀριθμῷ τὸ περιττόν, ἐν δὲ χροιᾷ τὸ λευκόν. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 14 140:1)
  • ἐν ταύτῃ δέ φασι πολλοὺσ μὲν καὶ μεγάλουσ ὄφεισ γεννᾶσθαι, ἰχθῦσ δὲ παντοδαποὺσ πολὺ τῇ χροιᾷ τῶν παρ’ ἡμῖν διαλλάττοντασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 74 11:2)

Synonyms

  1. the surface of a body

    • χρώς (the surface of the body, the skin, the flesh)

  2. the superficial appearance

Related

Similar forms

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

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