hole, a hole
hole, esp. of serpents, Il. 22.93, 95, Plu. Superst. 2.169e, Orph. L. 473; ἥβαν οὐχ ὑπὸ χειᾷ δάμασεν he buried not his youth in a hole, Pi. I. 8(7).77: pl., Schwyzer 194.5 (Crete).
The corpus record
χειά
cheia · ἡ
hole, a hole
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Where it lives
- Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- χειῇ · cheiēi Iliad 22.93
- χειῇ · cheiēi Iliad 22.95
Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. χειά (scan p. 1669; entry #6530).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. χειά (scan p. 1270; entry #8686).