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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

  • ξενιζόμενοι δὲ πρὸσ βίαν ἐπίνομεν ἐξ ὑαλίνων ἐκπωμάτων καὶ χρυσίδων ἄκρατον οἶνον ἡδύν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 3:5)
  • οἴμ’ ὡσ ἐλεήμων εἴμ’ ἀεὶ τῶν χρυσίδων. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, antistrophe 1 1:17)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ τούτων ἀπηλλάγημεν, ἐκλαμβάνει πάλιν ἡμᾶσ θερμόσ τισ καὶ ζωρότεροσ πότοσ, οἴνων ὄντων ἡμῖν Θασίων καὶ Μενδαίων καὶ Λεσβίων, χρυσίδων πάνυ μεγάλων ἑκάστῳ προσενεχθεισῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 2 3:11)

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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