χροιή (chroie)

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

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.122: χροιῇ θάλλεν ἔρευθος. ὁ δʼ ἐγγύθεν ὀκλαδὸν ἧστο

Lucian of Samosata, De Syria dea 17: … υμφορὴ κατέλαβεν, ἀμηχανέων τῷ κακῷ αἰσχρῷ δοκέοντι κατʼ ἡσυχίην ἐνόσεεν, ἔκειτο δὲ ἀλγέων οὐδέν, καί οἱ ἥ τε χροιὴ πάμπαν ἐτρέπετο καὶ τὸ σῶμα διʼ ἡμέρης ἐμαραίνετο. ὁ δὲ ἰητρὸς ὡς εἶδέ μιν ἐς οὐδὲν ἐμφανὲς ἀρρωστέοντα, ἔγνω …

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis diuturnorum morborum libri duo 1.15: … τῇ. διὰ τόδε μελάγχλωροι ἀπὸ σπληνὸς ἰκτέρου· ἀτὰρ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖσι σκυβάλοισι τοῖσι ξυνήθεσι, ἔτι καὶ μελαντέρη χροιή. τῆς γὰρ σπληνὸς τροφῆς τὸ περιττὸν ἐς ἔξοδον περίττωμα γίγνεται. καὶ ἐπὶ κώλῳ καὶ γαστρὶ ἴκτερος, ἤνπερ εἰς …

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.