absence of colour
absence of colour, Plot. 2.4.10.
2 loss of colour, paleness
loss of colour, paleness, Hp. Prorrh. 2.24, Arist. Pr. 967a8; opp. εὔχροια, Thphr. Sud. 39.
II likeness in colour
(ἀ- copul.) likeness in colour, Hsch.
The corpus record
ἄχροια
achroia · ἡ
absence of colour
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Where it lives
- Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἄχροιαν · achroian Plotinus, Enneads 2.4 (DIORISIS sentence 936)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.