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χροιά?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: chroia

Principal Part: χροιά χροιάς

Structure: χροι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: χρώς

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

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)
  • φύεται δ οὗτος ἐν λίμναις θέρους ὡρ´ᾳ, 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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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

    • χρώς (the colour of the skin, complexion)

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

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