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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

  • φύεται δ’ οὗτοσ ἐν λίμναισ θέρουσ ὡρ́ᾳ, καὶ εἰσὶν αὐτοῦ χροιαὶ δύο, ἡ μὲν τῷ ῥόδῳ ἐοικυῖα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 212)
  • "νῦν δὲ τῶν ἀνθρώπων οὐχ αἱ ὀσμαὶ μόνον, ὥσ φησιν Κλέαρχοσ ἐν γ’ περὶ Βίων, ἀλλὰ καὶ αἱ χροιαὶ τρυφερὸν ἔχουσαί τι συνεκθηλύνουσι τοὺσ μεταχειριζομένουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 34 3:2)

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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