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χρυσοπλύσιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρυσοπλύσιον χρυσοπλύσιου

Structure: χρυσοπλυσι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: plu/nw

Sense

  1. a gold-wash, placer

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

  • καὶ τοὺσ ἀνύδρουσ δὲ φορητῷ ἐπικλύζοντεσ ὕδατι στιλπνὸν ποιοῦσι τὸ ψῆγμα, καὶ φρέατα δ’ ὀρύσσοντεσ καὶ ἄλλασ τέχνασ ἐπινοοῦντεσ πλύσει τῆσ ἄμμου τὸν χρυσὸν ἐκλαμβάνουσι, καὶ πλείω τῶν χρυσωρυχείων ἐστὶ νῦν τὰ χρυσοπλύσια προσαγορευόμενα. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 16:8)
  • προσελάμβανε δὲ πλεῖστον εἰσ τὴν μεταλλείαν αὐτοῖσ ὁ Δουρίασ ποταμὸσ εἰσ τὰ χρυσοπλύσια, διόπερ ἐπὶ πολλοὺσ τόπουσ σχίζοντεσ εἰσ τὰσ ἐξοχετείασ τὸ ὕδωρ τὸ κοινὸν ῥεῖθρον ἐξεκένουν. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 6 14:6)

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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