χρύσεος

Alternative forms

• χρῡσοῦς (khrūsoûs) – Attic
• χρῡ́σειος (khrū́seios) – Epic

Etymology

From χρῡσός (khrūsós, “gold”) +‎ -εος (-eos)

Pronunciation

Adjective

χρῡ́σεος • (khrū́seos) m (feminine χρῡσέη, neuter χρῡ́σεον); first/second declension

1. golden, made of gold, decked or inlaid with gold
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.2–3
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.442
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.209
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.724
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.44
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.26
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.232
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.545
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.133
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.425
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.15
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.598
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.88
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.82
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.121
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Mistaken Critic 15
   1. (χρύσεια μέταλλα) gold mines
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.105
   2. (masculine substantive) gold coin
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 24.22
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 25
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 4.56.3
      • 100 CE – 200 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 9.53
2. gold-colored, golden yellow
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.42
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.24
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Paean 6.137
   • 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 9.376D
3. (figuratively) golden
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.64
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.337
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 8.5
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.144
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 188
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 699
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 483
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 3.73
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 645A
   • 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 212.5
   • 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 175
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 109
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 468E
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 235E
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 397E
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, A Slip of the Tongue in Greeting 1
   • 3rd century AD, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 10.8

Further reading

• χρύσεος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χρύσεος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χρύσεος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χρύσεος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• χρύσεος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• χρύσεος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • golden idem, page 366.