The corpus record

χειμ-ᾰσία

cheimasia · ἡ

passing the winter, wintering

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Where it lives

Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

χειμ-ᾰσία · cheim-asia — LSJ

passing the winter, wintering

passing the winter, wintering, φοιτῶσι ἐς χ. ἐς τοὺς τόπους τούτους Hdt. 2.22.

2 winter quarters

winter quarters, Plb. 2.54.14, al., D.S. 19.37, App. BC 2.52, Dura6 434 (iii A. D.).

II storm

= χειμών, storm, Arist. Pr. 940b15 (pl.), Thphr. Vent. 50 (pl.), Hsch.

In the wild

χειμασίην · cheimasiēn Herodotus, Histories 2.22.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1683)

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.

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