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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χρῡσός (khrūsós, “gold”) + ἄμπυξ (ámpux, “frontlet, headband”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰryː.sám.pyks/ → /xryˈsam.pyks/ → /xriˈsam.biks/
Adjective
χρῡσάμπυξ • (khrūsámpux) m or f (neuter —); third declension
- having a golden frontlet or headband
Declension
Not attested in the neuter.
Further reading
- “χρυσάμπυξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χρυσάμπυξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χρυσάμπυξ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “χρυσάμπυξ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “χρυσάμπυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χρυσάμπυξ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter