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ψυχρός
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /psyː.kʰrós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /psyˈkʰros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /psyˈxros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /psyˈxros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /psiˈxros/
Adjective
ψῡχρός • (psūkhrós) m (feminine ψῡχρᾱ́, neuter ψῡχρόν); first/second declension
- cold, frigid
- (figuratively) cold-hearted, without feeling, lifeless
- (figuratively) ineffectual
Inflection
References
- “ψυχρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ψυχρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ψυχρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ψυχρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ψυχρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ψυχρός”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5592 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- arctic idem, page 38.
- bleak idem, page 82.
- bracing idem, page 92.
- chill idem, page 130.
- cold idem, page 142.
- cool idem, page 173.
- crisp idem, page 184.
- dull idem, page 256.
- exhilarating idem, page 291.
- frigid idem, page 346.
- frosty idem, page 347.
- icy idem, page 413.
- insipid idem, page 445.
- mawkish idem, page 518.
- prosaic idem, page 653.
- tame idem, page 855.
- tasteless idem, page 856.
- unimpassioned idem, page 921.
- ψυχρός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
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Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ψυχρός (psukhrós).
Pronunciation
Adjective
ψυχρός • (psychrós) m (feminine ψυχρή, neuter ψυχρό)
- cold (literally, mainly of weather & figuratively)
Declension
Derivations:
Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο ψυχρός, etc.)
Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο ψυχρός, etc.)
Synonyms
- κρύος (krýos, “cold”)
Related terms
- Category Greek terms prefixed with ψυχρο- not found
- Category Greek terms suffixed with -ψυχρος not found
- ψύχρα f (psýchra, “cool -of weather-”)
- ψυχρότητα f (psychrótita, “coldness -figuratively-”)
- ψυχραίνω (psychraíno, “I make cool”)
and see: ψύχω (psýcho, “I make cold”)
Further reading
- ψυχρός, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
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