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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

  • "τέλοσ δ’ οὖν ὁ Ὑπερβόρεοσ ἐκ πηλοῦ ἐρώτιόν τι ἀναπλάσασ, Ἄπιθι, ἔφη, καὶ ἄγε Χρυσίδα. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 12:14)
  • "τότε δὴ ἥ τε Σελήνη ἀνέπτατο εἰσ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ἡ Ἑκάτη ἔδυ κατὰ τῆσ γῆσ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα φάσματα ἠφανίσθη καὶ τὴν Χρυσίδα ἐξεπέμψαμεν περὶ αὐτό που σχεδὸν τὸ λυκαυγέσ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 12:16)
  • "ἐπίστευον γὰρ ἄν, εἲ γε εἶδον αὐτά, νῦν δὲ συγγνώμη, οἶμαι, εἰ μὴ τὰ ὅμοια ὑμῖν ὀξυδορκεῖν ἔχω πλὴν ἀλλ’ οἶδα γὰρ τὴν Χρυσίδα ἣν λέγεισ, ἐραστὴν γυναῖκα καὶ πρόχειρον, οὐχ ὁρῶ δὲ τίνοσ ἕνεκα ἐδεήθητε ἐπ’ αὐτὴν τοῦ πηλίνου πρεσβευτοῦ καὶ μάγου τοῦ ἐξ Ὑπερβορέων καὶ Σελήνησ αὐτῆσ, ἣν εἴκοσι δραχμῶν ἀγαγεῖν εἰσ Ὑπερβορέουσ δυνατὸν ἦν. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 13:2)
  • Χρυσίδα, Κορώνην, Ἀντίκυραν, Ἰσχάδα, καὶ Ναννάριον ἔσχηκασ ὡραίαν σφόδρα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 52 2:1)
  • ἐδήλωσαν δὲ οἵ τε Λακεδαιμόνιοι τὸν Παυσανίαν καὶ ἔτι πρότερον τούτου Λεωτυχίδην καὶ Ἀργεῖοι Χρυσίδα, καθεζομένουσ ἐνταῦθα ἱκέτασ, οὐδὲ ἀρχὴν ἐξαιτῆσαι θελήσαντεσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 9:3)

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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