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χρύσεος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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    From χρῡσός (khrūsós, gold) +‎ -εος (-eos).

    Pronunciation

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    (Attic, Ionic, etc.):

     

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    Adjective

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    χρῡ́σεος (khrū́seosm (feminine χρυσέᾱ or χρῡσέη or χρῡ́σεος, neuter χρῡ́σεον); first/second declension (Attic, Epic, Ionic, Laconian)

    1. golden; made of gold; decked or inlaid with gold
    2. gold-colored, golden yellow
    3. (figuratively) golden

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    Descendants

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    • Latin: chrȳseus

    Noun

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    χρῡ́σεος (khrū́seosm (genitive χρῡσέου); second declension

    1. synonym of στᾰτήρ (stătḗr, stater, a type of coin)
    2. (Koine, literary, ironic) genius; bright spark (referring to one who has made a silly mistake)
      [] ἐγὼ δὲ ὁ χρυσοῦς ἐπιλαθόμενος []
      125 CE – 180 CE, Lucian, A Slip of the Tongue in Greeting 1
      [] egṑ dè ho khrusoûs epilathómenos [] [] but I, the genius that I am, forgot []

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    Further reading

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    • χρύσεος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • χρύσεος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • χρύσεος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
    • χρύσεος” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
    • χρύσεος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
    • χρύσεος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
    • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.