LOGOI

The corpus record

χλόος

chloos · ὁ

greenish-yellow

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What it meant — LSJ

greenish-yellow, light green colour, pallor

greenish-yellow or light green colour: hence, pallor, χ. εἷλε παρειάς A.R. 2.1216, cf. 3.298, Nic. Al. 570, 579; δειελινὴν τὴν δʼ εἷλε κακὸς χ. Call. Aet. 3.1.12 [Fr. 75.12 Pf.]; contr. χλοῦς Hp. ap. Gal. 19.155.

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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