ξηρόν (xeron)

ξηρόν is an Ancient Greek form of ξηρός, meaning “dry”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 86 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1136: δέξατο, καὶ μέλιτι ξηρὸν περὶ χεῖλος ἔδευσεν,

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.137: … ιον οὐσίαν τὴν ὕλην· εἶναι δὲ τὸ μὲν πῦρ τὸ θερμόν, τὸ δʼ ὕδωρ τὸ ὑγρόν, τόν τʼ ἀέρα τὸ ψυχρὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν τὸ ξηρόν. οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ ἔτι ἐν τῷ ἀέρι εἶναι τὸ αὐτὸ μέρος. ἀνωτάτω μὲν οὖν εἶναι τὸ πῦρ, ὃ δὴ αἰθέρα καλεῖσθαι, ἐν …

All forms of ξηρός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.