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χρυσωρυχεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρυσωρυχεῖον χρυσωρυχεῖου

Structure: χρυσωρυχει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from xru_swru/xos

Sense

  1. a gold-mine

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)
  • τὰ δὲ μέταλλα νυνὶ μὲν οὐχ ὁμοίωσ ἐνταῦθα σπουδάζεται διὰ τὸ λυσιτελέστερα ἴσωσ εἶναι τὰ ἐν τοῖσ ὑπεραλπείοισ Κελτοῖσ καὶ τῇ Ἰβηρίᾳ, πρότερον δὲ ἐσπουδάζετο, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἐν Ουἐρκέλλοισ χρυσωρυχεῖον ἦν· (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 1 24:11)
  • ὑποκειμένων δὲ τούτῳ χρυσωρυχείων οἱ μεταλλεύοντεσ εἰε͂ν μύρμηκεσ, θηρία ἀλωπέκων οὐκ ἐλάττω, τάχοσ ὑπερφυὲσ ἔχοντα καὶ ζῶντα ἀπὸ θήρασ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 88:3)

Synonyms

  1. a gold-mine

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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