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χρυσεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρυσεῖον χρυσεῖου

Structure: χρυσει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: xruso/s

Sense

  1. a goldsmith's shop
  2. a gold-mine, gold-mines

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

  • "ἐν δ’ οἶνον ἔχευε χρυσείῳ δέπαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 243)
  • τῷ δ’ ἄρα νέκταρ ἔδωκε πατὴρ δέπαϊ χρυσείῳ δεικνύμενοσ φίλον υἱόν· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , part 1:5)
  • εἰσ τὸ δημόσιον λουτρὸν τὸ καλούμενον Ἵππον ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ ἵππον ἐϋρρείτην χρονίᾐ μάστιγι δαμέντα χρυσείῳ πολύολβοσ ἄναξ ἤγειρε χαλινῷ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 6281)
  • δῶκε δ’ ἄρα σπλάγχνων μοίρασ, ἐν δ’ οἶνον ἔχευεν χρυσείῳ δέπαϊ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 3 5:6)
  • ἦρχε δ’ ἄρά σφιν Ἄρησ καὶ Παλλὰσ Ἀθήνη ἄμφω χρυσείω, χρύσεια δὲ εἵματα ἕσθην, καλὼ καὶ μεγάλω σὺν τεύχεσιν, ὥσ τε θεώ περ ἀμφὶσ ἀριζήλω· (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 48:6)

Synonyms

  1. a goldsmith's shop

  2. a gold-mine

Related

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

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