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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

  • νῦν δὲ τὰσ μὲν ὄψεισ ὑπὸ τῶν ἄγαν λαμπρῶν τιτρωσκομένασ ἀποστρέφοντεσ ταῖσ ἀνθηραῖσ καὶ ποώδεσι χροιαῖσ παρηγοροῦμεν, τὴν δὲ διάνοιαν ἐντείνομεν εἰσ τὰ λυπηρὰ καὶ προσβιαζόμεθα τοῖσ τῶν ἀνιαρῶν ἐνδιατρίβειν ἀναλογισμοῖσ, μονονοὺ βίᾳ τῶν βελτιόνων ἀποσπάσαντεσ. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 8 1:2)
  • Μόλισ δέ ποτε ταῖσ χροιαῖσ τῶν πύργων, αἷσ δὴ μόναισ διέφερον ἀλλήλων, ὁ Ἀγρίππασ συνεὶσ πλέονασ ἀπολωλέναι τοῦ Πομπηίου ναῦσ ἐθάρρυνε τοὺσ συνόντασ ὡσ ἤδη κατορθοῦντασ· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 12 13:1)
  • τὴν δὲ φιλοτεχνίαν τῶν Ἰνδῶν ἐμφανίζων σπόγγουσ φησὶν ἰδόντασ παρὰ τοῖσ Μακεδόσι μιμήσασθαι, τρίχασ καὶ σχοινία λεπτὰ καὶ ἁρπεδόνασ διαρράψαντασ εἰσ ἔρια, καὶ μετὰ τὸ πιλῆσαι τὰ μὲν ἐξελκύσαντασ τὰ δὲ βάψαντασ χροιαῖσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 134:1)

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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