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χονδρός , ά, όν,
A.granular, coarse, “ἄλευρα χονδρότερα” Hp.Mul.2.193; “ἄλφιτον ἀραιὸν καὶ χονδρόν” Arist.Pr.927b35: mostly of coarse salt, “ἅλες οὐ χονδροί, ἀλλὰ χαῦνοι καὶ λεπτοὶ ὥσπερ χιών” Id.Mete.359a32; “χἄλα λήψεται χονδρόν” Phoen.2.5; χονδροὺς ἅλας (cod.Rav. χονδρὰς ἅλας) is prob. in Ar.Ach.521 (v.l. χόνδρους ἁλός） χονδρός Adj., χόνδρος Subst. are distd. by Hdn.Gr.1.203, 2.716; Comp. and Sup. -ότερος, -ότατος, Choerob. in Theod.2.76H.
II. later, generally, coarse, “τρίχες” Ps.-Callisth.2.33; οὐηλάρια μικρὰ χοντρὰ (sic) “δύο” Sammelb.7033.39 (v A. D.); χονδρός, = grossus, Gloss. (χόνδρος and χονδρός dissim. fr. Χρονδ-ρο-, cogn. with Engl. grind.）
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.

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    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 1.203
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 2.716
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 521
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