χροιάν (chroian)

χροιάν is an Ancient Greek form of χροιά, meaning “skin, colour”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 1168: χροιὰν γὰρ ἀλλάξασα λεχρία πάλιν

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi Marini 1.3: … τυγχάνεις οὖσα τὴν ὄψιν, ἀπὸ πέτρας τινός, εἴ ποτε γαλήνη εἴη, ἐπικύψασα ἐς τὸ ὕδωρ ἰδὲ σεαυτὴν οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ χροίαν λευκὴν ἀκριβῶς· οὐκ ἐπαινεῖται δὲ τοῦτο, ἢν μὴ ἐπιπρέπῃ αὐτῷ καὶ τὸ ἐρύθημα. Καὶ μὴν ἐγὼ μὲν ἡ ἀκράτως λευκὴ …

Strabo, Geography 15.1.13: … ιτος δὲ καὶ τοὺς ἵππους γίνεσθαί φησι. τῶν δʼ ἀνθρώπων οἱ μὲν μεσημβρινοὶ τοῖς Αἰθίοψίν εἰσιν ὅμοιοι κατὰ τὴν χροιάν, κατὰ δὲ τὴν ὄψιν καὶ τὴν τρίχωσιν τοῖς ἄλλοις (οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐλοτριχοῦσι διὰ τὴν ὑγρότητα τοῦ ἀέρος), οἱ δὲ βόρε …

All forms of χροιά (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.