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χρωμᾰτ-ικός

chromatikos

of, relating to colour

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What it meant

χρωμᾰτ-ικός · chrōmat-ikos — LSJ

of, relating to colour

of, relating to colour:—but only found,

II offering a colourable pretext

metaph., in Rhet., offering a colourable pretext (χρῶμα IV.4), τὸ χ., as name of a form of rebuttal, Aps. p.273H. (v.l. χρωμάτιον).

2 chromatic, chromatic genus

in Music, chromatic (cf. χρῶμα IV. 3), μελῳδία D.H. Comp. 19; μέλος, opp. διάτονον, ἐναρμόνιον, Alciphr. 1.18, cf. Aristox(?).Oxy. 667.1; τὸ -κὸν [γένος] the chromatic genus, Plu. QConv. 2.744c, cf. Phld. Mus. p.63K., Ph. 1.321.

Where it came from

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