The corpus record

χῐόν-εος

chioneos

snowy, snow-white

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What it meant

χῐόν-εος · chion-eos — LSJ

snowy, snow-white

snowy, snow-white, χιτῶνες Asius 13.3; σάρξ Bion 1.10; στήθεα Scol.Anon. 26 (Diehl Anthologia Lyrica (ed. 1) ii 188).

2 of, from snow

of or from snow, ὕδατα Lyr.Alex.Adesp. 37.12; νιφάδες AP 9.244 (Apollonid.); κρύσταλλος ib. 753 (Claudian.). [ῐ by nature, but ῑ metri gr. in hexam.]

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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