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χρωτός (chrotos)

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

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 174: κακὸν μεθίστη χρωτὸς εὐειδῆ φύσιν.

Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales 6: … ι τὰ ψαύοντα τῆς ὕλης μόρια τοῦ σώματος; πότερον, ὡς Λαῖτος ἔλεγε, τῇ λεπτότητι τὸ δροσῶδες ὑγρὸν ἀποξύει τοῦ χρωτός· ἤ, καθάπερ ἐρυσίβη τοῖς ὑγραινομένοις ἐγγίγνεται σπέρμασιν, οὕτως ὑπὸ τῆς δρόσου τῶν ἐπιπολῆς χλωρῶν καὶ ἁπα …

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.