1. χρῦσός · chrysos — Beekes
The corpus record
χρυσός
chrusos
gold
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Where it lives
- Hecuba 14 · 19.55/10k
- Minos 5 · 17.53/10k
- Critias 8 · 16.19/10k
- Ichneutae 2 · 11.63/10k
- Hippias Major 7 · 8.29/10k
- Ion 3 · 7.48/10k
- James 1 · 5.85/10k
- Trojan Women 4 · 5.65/10k
- Fragments 2 · 5.02/10k
- Sapientia Salomonis 3 · 4.35/10k
- Odyssey 37 · 4.26/10k
- Euthydemus 5 · 4.02/10k
Densest 12 of 80 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. χρῦσός · chrysos — Chantraine
3. Χρυσός · Chrysos — Chantraine
4. χρυσός · chrysos — Frisk
5. χρῡσός · chrysos — LSJ
gold, τιμῆς Il. 18.475, etc.; coupled with other precious things, e.g. χαλκός, σίδηρος, 6.48; ἐσθής, Od. 5.38; χρυσὸν κέρασιν περιχεύας (of a victim) Il. 10.294 = Od. 3.384, cf. 437; ὡς δʼ ὅτε τις χρυσὸν περιχεύεται ἀργύρῳ 6.232; χ. δαμασίφρων Pi. O. 13.78; κοῖλος ἄργυρος καὶ χ. silver and gold plate, Theopomp.Hist. 283a, cf. Luc. Nav. 20; λευκὸς χ. white gold, i.e. gold alloyed with silver, opp. χ. ἄπεφθος refined gold, Hdt. 1.50; χ. ἑψόμενος Pi. N. 4.82; χρυσὸν καθαίρειν Pl. Plt. 303d; βασανίζ
gold, to express anything made of gold, e. g. golden armour or raiment, χρυσὸν . . ἔδυνε περὶ χροΐ, of Zeus, Il. 8.43; of Poseidon, 13.25; τὸ ἐμὸν σῶμα μήτε ἐν χ. θῆτε . . X. Cyr. 8.7.25; ἀραρότως σύνδεσμα χρυσὸς (a gold crown) εἶχε E. Med. 1193; ἐν χρυσῷ πίνειν Luc. Merc.Cond. 26.
freq. used by Poets to denote anything dear or precious, ταῦτα μὲν . . κρείσσονα χρυσοῦ . . φωνεῖς A. Ch. 372 (anap.); ὁ χ. ἧσσον κτῆμα τοῦ κλάειν ἂν ἦν S. Fr. 557; ὡς χρυσὸς αὐτῷ τἀμὰ . . κακὰ δόξει ποτʼ εἶναι E. Tr. 432, cf. D.H. Rh. 9.4; cf. Pi. O. 1.1, 3.42, Plu. Sert. 5: metaph. also, χρυσὸς ἐπῶν golden words, Ar. Pl. 268; χρυσῷ πάττειν τινά Id. Nu. 912 (anap.); ὗσαι χρυσόν τινι Pi. O. 7.50. [ῡ] in χρυσός and all derivs., though Lyric Poets sts. made υ short in the Adj. χρύσεος (q.v.); once
In the wild
- χρυσοῦ · chrysou Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 372–373
- χρυσόν · chryson Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 500–503
- χρυσῷ · chrysōi Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 947)
- χρυσόν · chryson Aristophanes, Birds 670 (DIORISIS sentence 544)
- χρυσῷ · chrysōi Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 744)
- χρυσοῦ · chrysou Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 695)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. χρυσός (scan pp. 1703-1704; entry #6613).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. χρυσός (scan pp. 2094-2095; entry #6150).
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