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χρυσίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρυσίς χρυσίδος

Structure: χρυσιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a vessel of gold, piece of gold plate
  2. a gold-broidered dress or shoes

Declension

Third 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

  • ἔπειτα συμβάλλειν πρὸσ ἀλλήλασ ἔφη ἱμάτια χρυσί’ ἀργύριον ἐκπώματα μόνασ μόναισ, οὐ μαρτύρων ἐναντίον, καὶ ταῦτ’ ἀποφέρειν πάντα κοὐκ ἀποστερεῖν, ἡμῶν δὲ τοὺσ πολλοὺσ ἔφασκε τοῦτο δρᾶν. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 3:16)
  • ὅστισ δέ, ὦ Χρυσί, μήτε ζηλοτυπεῖ μήτε ὀργίζεται μήτε ἐρράπισέ ποτε ἢ περιέκειρεν ἢ τὰ ἱμάτια περιέσχισεν, ἔτι ἐραστὴσ ἐκεῖνόσ ἐστιν; (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:1)
  • ἤρα δέ, ὦ Χρυσί, ἐπιπόλαιόν τινα ἔρωτα οὔτε ὑποστένων οὔτε δακρύων οὔτε ἀωρὶ παραγιγνόμενοσ ἐπὶ τὰσ θύρασ, ἀλλ̓ αὐτὸ μόνον συνεκάθευδέ μοι ἐνίοτε, καὶ τοῦτο διὰ μακροῦ. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:13)
  • ὥστε, ὦ Χρυσί, καὶ σὺ χρῶ ἐπὶ τὸν Γοργίαν τῷ αὐτῷ φαρμάκῳ· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:5)

Synonyms

  1. a vessel of gold

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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