χυτός (chutos)

Where it lives

Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Timaeus 4 · 1.69/10k
De Sensu et Sensibilibus 1 · 1.28/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Paralipomenon II 1 · 0.51/10k
Iliad 3 · 0.27/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

χῠτός · chytos — LSJ

poured, shed, shed

poured, shed, αἷμα χυτόν blood shed, A. Eu. 682.

2 heaped up, a mound of

of dry things, heaped up, Hom., only in phrase χυτὴ γαῖα a mound of earth, esp. a sepulchral mound, like χῶμα, Il. 6.464, 14.114, Od. 3.258; so χυτῇ θινί Opp. H. 2.635; χυτὰ κόνις IG 14.1721.5 (Rome), cf. 12(8).38.4 (Lemnos); also χυτή alone (sc. γαῖα) Epigr.Gr. 1034.25 (Callipolis).

b mound, bank, dyke

Subst., χυτός, ὁ, = χῶμα, mound, bank, dyke, Hdt. 7.37.

3 protected by a mole, mound

χ. λιμήν protected by a mole or mound, A.R. 1.987, ubi v. Sch.

II cast, melted, fused, welded together

cast, melted, ἀρτήματα λίθινα χυτά Hdt. 2.69; ἐν σκύφῳ χυτῆς λίθου Epin. 1.8; χ. ἄργυρος, πίσσα, Thphr. Lap. 60, Nic. Al. 116; χαλκός Orib. 49.3.8; τὰ χυτά things fused or welded together, Iamb. in Nic. p.81P.

2 that can be liquefied, fusible

that can be liquefied, fusible, Pl. Ti. 58d, 61c; opp. ἐλατός, Arist. Mete. 378a27.

III liquid, fluid, flowing, flowing, streaming, luxuriant

generally, liquid, fluid, flowing, νέκταρ Pi. O. 7.7; θάλασσα AP 6.66 (Paul.Sil.): poet. also of the hair, flowing, streaming, Nic. Th. 503; χ. ἔρνος a luxuriant shoot or sprout, ib. 391.

IV in shoals

in shoals, χυτοὶ ἰχθύες, of fish caught in nets, Arist. HA 543a1.

V case, jacket

χυτή, ἡ, case or jacket enclosing a wooden model of an engine, Hero Bel. 96.10.

In the wild

χυτοῦ · chytou Aeschylus, Eumenides 681–682
χυτῷ · chytōi Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 154)
χυτὸν · chyton Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3042)
χυτὰ · chyta Herodotus, Histories 2.69.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2038)
χυτοὶ · chytoi Herodotus, Histories 7.37.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7301)
χυτὴ · chytē Iliad 14.114

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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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