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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

  • πάνυ γὰρ τοῦθ’ ἡμῖν ἀδύνατον οὐδ’ αὖ ἐκείνῳ περιθεὶσ τοὺσ λόγουσ, μὴ καὶ κατ’ ἄλλο τι γένωμαι τοῖσ ὑποκριταῖσ ἐκείνοισ ὅμοιοσ, οἳ πολλάκισ ἢ Ἀγαμέμνονοσ ἢ Κρέοντοσ ἢ καὶ Ἡρακλέουσ αὐτοῦ πρόσωπον ἀνειληφότεσ, χρυσίδασ ἠμφιεσμένοι καὶ δεινὸν βλέποντεσ καὶ μέγα κεχηνότεσ μικρὸν φθέγγονται καὶ ἰσχνὸν καὶ γυναικῶδεσ καὶ τῆσ Ἑκάβησ ἢ Πολυξένησ πολὺ ταπεινότερον. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 11:2)
  • εἰ δ̓ ἐθέλεισ ἐπέραστοσ εἶναι, μὴ ἐπίσειε τὴν αἰγίδα μηδὲ τὸν κεραυνὸν φέρε, ἀλλ̓ ὡσ ἥδιστον ποίει σεαυτὸν ἑκατέρωθεν καθειμένοσ βοστρύχουσ, τῇ μίτρᾳ τούτουσ ἀνειλημμένοσ, πορφυρίδα ἔχε, ὑποδέου χρυσίδασ, ὑπ̓ αὐλῷ καὶ τυμπάνοισ εὔρυθμα βαῖνε, καὶ ὄψει ὅτι πλείουσ ἀκολουθήσουσί σοι τῶν Διονύσου Μαινάδων. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:5)
  • στεφάνουσ τε πᾶσι κὠμφαλωτὰσ χρυσίδασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 104 3:4)
  • Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ τὰσ μὲν ἀργυρᾶσ φιάλασ ἀργυρίδασ λέγουσι, χρυσίδασ δὲ τὰσ χρυσᾶσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 1051)

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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