Χρέος

debt

Translated by Jennifer Benedict3 Apr 2008Vetting: high3 revisions

10 words

[Meaning] a loan. Also [sc. attested is the form] xrei=os.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Χρέος· τὸ δάνειον. καὶ Χρεῖος.

Betacode

*xre/os: to\ da/neion. kai\ *xrei=os.

For another (more general) sense of this headword see chi 458; for the 'debt' sense see also chi 462, chi 463, chi 464.
The form xrei=os is common in epic; see e.g. Homer, Iliad 11.686 (web address 1 below) and the scholia thereto. See also Hesychius s.v. xrei=os, and Etymologicum Magnum 814.36.