previous next
χειμάρροος , ον, contr. χείμ-ρρους , ουν, and shortened χείμαρρος , ον: (χεῖμα, ῥέω):—
A.winter-flowing, swollen by rain and melted snow, of mountain-streams,
I. joined with ποταμός, ὅν τε [the stone] “ποταμὸς χειμάρροος ὤσῃ” Il.13.138; “ὡς δ᾽ ὁπότε πλήθων ποταμὸς πεδίονδε κάτεισιν χειμάρρους κατ᾽ ὄρεσφιν” 11.493: freq. in contracted forms, “ποταμῷ πλήθοντι ἐοικὼς χειμάρρῳ” 5.88; “ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε χείμαρροι ποταμοὶ κατ᾽ ὄρεσφι ῥέοντες” 4.452; “χειμάρρῳ ποταμῷ ἴκελος” Hdt.3.81, cf. Thgn.348; “παρὰ ῥείθροισι χειμάρροις” S.Ant.712; “φάραγγες ὕδατι χειμάρρῳ ῥέουσαι” E.Tr.449 (troch.); “διὰ χειμάρρου νάπης” Id.Ba.1093; “χαράδρα χ.” Plb.10.30.2.
2. πλεκτάνη χειμάρροος seems to be rushing, furious lightning A.Fr.281.
II. Subst., torrent, Pl. Lg.736b, X.HG4.4.7; “ὥσπερ χειμάρρους ἂν εἰς τὴν πόλιν εἰσέπεσε” D.18.153.
2. simply, river, LXX Nu.34.5.
3. drain, gutter, “οἱ ἐκ τῶν οἰκιῶν χ.” D.55.19.
4. valley, watercourse, LXX 4 Ki.3.16. (Plur. accented χείμαρροι by Ptol.Ascal., χειμάρροι by Nicias, Eust. 496.37; later nom. “χείμαρρος” Paus.9.33.7, 10.37.3, acc. “χείμαρρον” LXX l.c. cod.Alex., Ps.123(124).4, Paus.1.35.7.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

hide Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
Search for in
How to enter text in Greek:
hide References (18 total)
  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (18):
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 153
    • Demosthenes, Against Callicles, 19
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 1093
    • Euripides, Trojan Women, 449
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.81
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.452
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.493
    • Homer, Iliad, 13.138
    • Old Testament, Numbers, 34.5
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.37.3
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.35.7
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.33.7
    • Plato, Laws, 736b
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 712
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.4.7
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.88
    • Polybius, Histories, 10.30.2
    • Old Testament, 2 Kings, 3.16
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: