The corpus record

χῐον-ίζω

chionizo

snow upon, cover with snow

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Where it lives

Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

χῐον-ίζω · chion-izō — LSJ

snow upon, cover with snow, it snowed, to be covered with snow

snow upon, cover with snow: impers., εἰ ἐχιόνιζε . . τὴν χώρην [sc. ὁ θεός] Hdt. 2.22: abs., εἰ ἐχιόνιζε if it snowed, ibid.:—Pass., to be covered with snow, D.S. 1.39, Sm. Ps. 67(68).15, Dsc. 4.61, D.L. 6.23 (v.l. κεχιονωμένους), Sch. A.R. 4.269.

II turn into snow, make snow-white

turn into snow, in Pass., PMag. 13.299 Preisendanz; make snow-white, Hsch.

In the wild

κεχιονισμένους · kechionismenous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4871)
ἐχιόνιζε · echionize Herodotus, Histories 2.22.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1681)
ἐχιόνιζε · echionize Herodotus, Histories 2.22.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1684)

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