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χρώμενον (chromenon)

χρώμενον is an Ancient Greek form of χράομαι, meaning “to use, make use of; consult”. It is the present middle/passive participle accusative singular masculine.

Found 197 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.94.4: τὸ γὰρ ἔθνος μέγα μὲν εἶναι τὸ τῶν Αἰτωλῶν καὶ μάχιμον, οἰκοῦν δὲ κατὰ κώμας ἀτειχίστους, καὶ ταύτας διὰ πολλοῦ, καὶ σκευῇ ψιλῇ χρώμενον οὐ χαλεπὸν ἀπέφαινον, πρὶν ξυμβοηθῆσαι, καταστραφῆναι.

Lucian of Samosata, Rhetorum praeceptor 16: καὶ δή σοι τοὺς νόμους δίειμι, οἷς χρώμενόν σε ἡ Ῥητορικὴ γνωριεῖ καὶ προσήσεται, οὐδὲ ἀποστραφήσεται καὶ σκορακιεῖ καθάπερ ἀτέλεστόν τινα καὶ κατάσκοπον …

All forms of χράομαι (conjugation 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.