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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kʰeimə, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéymn̥ (“winter”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰêː.ma/ → /ˈçi.ma/ → /ˈçi.ma/
Noun
χεῖμᾰ • (kheîma) n (genitive χείμᾰτος); third declension
- winter
- frost, cold
- storm, tempest
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Further reading
- “χεῖμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χεῖμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χεῖμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χεῖμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χεῖμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.