The corpus record

ψυχρό-της

psuchrotes · ἡ

coldness, cold

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Where it lives

De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte 1 · 5.44/10k
De Somno et Vigilia 1 · 3.36/10k
De Respiratione 2 · 3.29/10k
De Sensu et Sensibilibus 2 · 2.56/10k
Categories 2 · 1.99/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Metaphysics 4 · 0.51/10k
Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
Enneads 8 · 0.38/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

ψυχρό-της · psychro-tēs — LSJ

coldness, cold, chills, frosts

coldness, cold, opp. θερμότης, Hp. VM 16, Pl. R. 437e; ἡ τοῦ περιέχοντος ψ. καὶ στυγνότης Plb. 4.21.1: pl. ψυχρότητες chills, frosts, Plu. QConv. 2.701b.

II want of feeling, bad taste, sluggishness

metaph. of persons, want of feeling, bad taste, D. 18.256: sluggishness, Plu. Fab. 17.

2 frigidity

of exaggerated, glittering phrases and the like, frigidity, Longin. 3.4, Agatharch. 21, Demetr. Eloc. 6, al.

In the wild

ψυχρότης · psychrotēs Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 148)
ψυχρότης · psychrotēs Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 150)
ψυχρότητι · psychrotēti Aristotle, De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte (DIORISIS sentence 46)
ψυχρότητα · psychrotēta Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 59)
ψυχρότητι · psychrotēti Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 140)
ψυχρότητος · psychrotētos Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 81)

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