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Χρυσόγεων
gold-earthed, golden-earthed
[Meaning] that which has golden
earth.
But xruso/geion [sc. is different].
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328
Χθονίας βροντάς
earth-shaking thunderclaps
"Celebrate [his]
earth-shaking
thunderclaps". Meaning sing a hymn.
"Earth-shaking"
[meaning] frightening. For they trace the genealogy of all terrible things to the
earth.
But others [see this as thunderclaps] that bring about a loud …
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331
Χθονοστιβῆ
earth-treading [things]
[Meaning] the ones on the
earth,
terrestrial ones. "[...] and unspeakable things, both heavenly and
earth-treading".
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Χθονοπλάστου
earth-formed
[Meaning] moulded from
earth.
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606
Χυτή
heaped [earth]
[Meaning] the
earth
which is poured over the dead.
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617
Χυτρεοῦν
earthenware
… cooking-pot. Aristophanes [writes]: "o unhappy me, for taking you --
earthenware
-- to be a god".
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332
Χθών
earth, ground
[*xqw/n means the same as] gh=.
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5
Χάλαζα
hail, hailstorm
… through the air by the wind and carried down to
earth.
But snow [is] moisture, frozen out of a cloud. Hailstorms: they are freezings of the moisture overhead in the air, above the
earth;
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84
Χάος
Chaos
… Chaos, Night, black Erebus, and broad Tartarus. There was neither
earth,
nor air, nor heaven. Black-winged Night begat the first wind-egg in the boundless bosom of Erebus. And after the cycles of the years, …
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Χαμάδις
groundwards
[Meaning] to the ground, into/towards [the]
earth.
Also [sc. attested is] xama=ze, [also meaning] to the ground.
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322
Χθαμαλά
humble [things]; flat [things]
The headword adjective is related to obsolete *xama/
("earth")
and so its meaning can be literal or metaphorical; cf. Latin humilis from humus
("earth").
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, and cf. the …
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64
Χαμαί
on the ground
[Meaning] on the
earth.
And [there is] a proverb: 'to draw water on the ground', the equivalent of achieving nothing. Another instance is 'to wash a brick'. Used in reference to things that are …
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77
Χαμόθεν
from the ground
[Meaning] from the
earth.
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87
Χαράδραι
ravines
[Meaning] divisions, and splits, and conduits of the
earth.
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225
Χεῖλος
lip
[Meaning] the body-part [of that name]. "And the whole
earth
became one lip." He is speaking about sins.
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234
Χειμὼν
winter
[*xeimw/n, genitive] xeimw=nos. Winter is the air above the
earth
that is frozen because of the departure of the sun. Homer [says]: "they fled winter". [He is speaking] about the cranes. He is referring …
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236
Χειμὼν ὀρνιθίας
bird storm, bird tempest, fowl wind
[Meaning] one that scatters birds upon the
earth
because of the cold blast; that is, an extremely forceful one, in which even birds perish. It is also called a bird wind. Or [it is …
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329
Χθονίων
chthonic
[Meaning]
earthly.
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360
Χνοωδέστερα
finer, more powdery
[Meaning] thinner. "And the underlying
earth
[is] more powdery than any sand because of thin-ness."
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373
Χοὴ
libation
and libations: the
earth
poured onto [e)pixeome/nh] the dead.
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426
Χῶμα
mound
[Meaning an] elevation of
earth,
which enemies used to build against the walls in their sieges. "As Trajan came into Babylon, he encountered a rather large mound which Semiramis was said to have constructed. …
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553
Χρυσᾶ
golden
… the last syllable; [likewise] a)rgura= ["silver"], xrusa= ["golden"], and keramea=
["earthen"],
from kerameou=n, and foinika= ["purple"], from foinikou=n.
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571
Χρυσίτης
chrysite; gold ore
A type of rock; but xrusi=tis ("gold-bearing") [is]
earth.
Except for eagle-stone [a)eti/ths], lychnite [luxni/ths] and agate [a)xa/ths], the rest [are spelled] with iota.
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Χαμαίλεον
chamaileon
… jaundice; see Pliny, Natural History 22.53. The name xamai/mhlon from
"earth"
(xamai/) and "apple" (mh=lon) -- compare the French pomme de terre, potato -- was probably applied because the plant gives off a faintly …
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233
Χειμερινὸς καιρός
wintry season, wintry time
… Hesiod, Theogony 148 (citing Chrysippus), on the three sons of
Earth
and Heaven: Kottos, Briareos and Gyges. Each is equated with a season of the year: Kottos with the angry heat of summer, Briareos …
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376
Χοϊκός
mud, made of mud
… equivalent of the Hebrew "Adam" (alpha 425) -- from adama,
"earth"
-- in a typological passage on Christ as Second Adam. Same entry, according to Adler, in Lexicum Ambrosianum 284; and cf. already Hesychius …
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342
Χλίδος
slime, sludge
Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Kallikles on Damage to a
Plot
[writes]: "and then throwing out the slime into the road, the result of which was that he made the road itself higher and …
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247
Χείριστα
basest [things]
… "manager" [xeiristh/n],[meaning] independent worker, assistant. "He told him about the
plot
and begged him to become a manager of the matter." Meaning fulfiller, completer.
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