LOGOI

The corpus record

χρόα

chroa1

(contact) surface of the body, skin, skin-color, color

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

What it meant

1. χρόα · chroa — Beekes

χρόα [f.] ‘(contact) surface of the body, skin, skin-color, color’ (& 164), also ‘surface, ἐπιφάνεια᾽ among the Pythagoraeans (Arist.). *VAR Also χροιά, Ion. xpou} (see below). Further χρώς [f.], gen. xpo-dc, dat. -i, acc. χρόα, younger gen. χρω-τός (since K 575), -ti (since Pi.), -ta (Od., Hes. Op. 556), plur. -tes (Arist.) ‘surface of the body, skin, skin-color’, also ‘flesh, body’, rarely ‘color’ (IL, epic … — [Beekes, s.v. χρόα, p. 1701]

2. χρόα · chroa — Chantraine

χρόα, f, voir χρώς. χρόμαδος, χρόμις, χρόμος, voir χρεμετίζω, — [Chantraine, s.v. χρόα, p. 1297]

3. χρόα · chroa — Frisk

χρόα, auch χοοιά, ion. χροιή f. ‘Oberfläche des Körpers, Haut, Hautfarbe, Farbe’ (seit Z 164), auch ‘Fläche, ἐπιφάνεια᾽ beiden Pythagoreern (Arist. u.a.; Mugler Ant. class. 27, 76ff.). — Daneben χρώς f., 00-65, -T, χρό-α, Jünger χρω-τός (seit Καὶ 575), -τί {seit Pi.), -τα (seit Od., Hes. Op. 556), pl. -res (Arist. u.a.) “Oberfläche des Körpers, Haut, Hautfarbe’, auch “Fleisch, Leib’, selten ‘Farbe’ (vorw. ep. ion. … — [Frisk, s.v. χρόα, p. 2092]

4. χρόα · chroa — Frisk

χρόα. Zur Stammbildung von χρώς, χροιά u.a. noch Szemerenyi Stud. Mic. 2 (1967) 21ff. Über μελαγ-χροιής usw. Wyatt Metr. lengthening 169f. ı$alw. Wie Haas urteilt auch Merlingen Eine ältere Lehnwörterschicht im Griech. I (1963), II (1967). — [Frisk, s.v. χρόα, p. 2316]

5. χρόα · chroa — LSJ

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.

Downloads

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Ask the librarian

Ask about χρόα →