χύσις (chusis)

Where it lives

Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Meditations 2 · 0.69/10k
Odyssey 3 · 0.35/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

χύσις · chysis — LSJ

shedding, pouring out, forth, squandering

shedding, pouring out or forth, αἱμάτων Thphr. Fr. 174.6 (pl.): metaph., squandering, οὐσίας Alciphr. 1.21.

2 diffusion

diffusion, e.g. of nutriment, Gal. 6.87; opp. πίλησις, Id. Nat.Fac. 1.3 (pl.); coupled with ἀνάλυσις, διάλυσις, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.136, cf. 188.

3 casting, fusing

melting, κηροῦ S.E. P. 3.14; casting, fusing, Str. 16.2.25.

4 dispersion

dispersion, ἐν τῇ χ. τοῦ ἑνὸς πλῆθος γίγνεται Plot. 6.6.1.

II liquid poured forth, flood, stream, lapse

liquid poured forth, flood, stream, ἐκχέασα γάποτον χ., of a libation, A. Ch. 97; πόντου χ. Opp. H. 5.78; ὕδατος Arat. 393, A.R. 4.1416: metaph, χρονίη χ. lapse of time, AP 9.153 (Agath.).

2 heap

of dry things, heap, φύλλων χ. Od. 5.483, 19.443; νότος . . χύσιν κατεχεύατο φύλλων Call. Hec. Fr. 260.11 Pf.[updated ref.], cf. AP 9.282 (Antip.Thess.); καλάμης Nic. Th. 297.

3 fluency, copiousness

metaph. of fluency or copiousness of speech, ascribed to Cicero in contrast to the ὕψος ἀπότομον of Demosthenes, ὁ Κικέρων ἐν χύσει Longin. 12.4; ἡ χ. τῶν λέξεων Phld. Po.Herc. 1676.6.

4 quantity, abundance, a great deal

quantity, abundance, σαρκῶν AP 5.36 (Rufin.); χ. φαυλότητος a great deal of badness, Porph. Abst. 3.2.

In the wild

χύσιν · chysin Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 96–99
χύσις · chysis Odyssey 19.443
χύσις · chysis Odyssey 5.483
χύσιν · chysin Odyssey 5.487
χύσις · chysis Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.57.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1387)
χύσιν · chysin Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.57.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1391)

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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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