χροΐ (chroi)

χροΐ is an Ancient Greek form of χρώς, meaning “skin, flesh, body”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

Found 68 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.872: ἀθάνατος, καί οἱ στυγερὸν χροῒ γῆρας ἀλάλκοι.

Euripides, Cyclops 408: πτήξαντες εἶχον, αἷμα δ’ οὐκ ἐνῆν χροΐ.

Hippocrates, De fracturis 3: … τὴν χεῖρα δοὺς, οὕτω κατατείνειν ἐκέλευε, καὶ οὕτως ἔχουσαν ἐπέδει, τοῦτο νομίζων τὸ κατὰ φύσιν εἶναι, τῷ τε χροϊ σημαινόμενος, καὶ τὰ ὀστέα νομίζων κατὰ φύσιν εἶναι οὕτως, ὅτι φαίνεται τὸ ἐξέχον ὀστέον τὸ παρὰ τὸν καρπὸν, …

All forms of χρώς (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.