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χρυσᾶ (chrysa)

χρυσᾶ is an Ancient Greek form of χρύσεος, meaning “golden”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 75 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.46.3: … ς δυνάμεως χρημάτων παρείχετο· καὶ ἰδίᾳ ξενίσεις ποιούμενοι τῶν τριηριτῶν τά τε ἐξ αὐτῆς Ἐγέστης ἐκπώματα καὶ χρυσᾶ καὶ ἀργυρᾶ ξυλλέξαντες καὶ τὰ ἐκ τῶν ἐγγὺς πόλεων καὶ Φοινικικῶν καὶ Ἑλληνίδων αἰτησάμενοι ἐσέφερον ἐς τὰς ἑσ …

Strabo, Geography 13.1.47: ἦν δὲ τῷ Ἀχαιίῳ συνεχὴς ἥ τε Λάρισα καὶ Κολωναί, τῆς Τενεδίων περαίας οὖσαι πρότερον, καὶ ἡ νῦν Χρῦσα, ἐφʼ ὕψους τινὸς πετρώδους ὑπὲρ τῆς θαλάττης ἱδρυμένη, καὶ ἡ Ἁμαξιτὸς ἡ τῷ Λεκτῷ ὑποκειμένη συνεχής· νῦν δʼ ἡ …

Bacchylides, Epinicians 3.28: Κροῖσον ὁ χρυσά[ορος

All forms of χρύσεος (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.