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χείλεα (cheilea)

χείλεα is an Ancient Greek form of χεῖλος, meaning “lip”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.474: χείλεα, κυάνεαί τε γενειάδες· οἱ δʼ ὁμάδησαν

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 20.9: χείλεά τοι νοσέοντι, χέρες δέ τοι ἐντὶ μέλαιναι,

All forms of χεῖλος (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.