Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πολῠ́χρονος ‎(polúkhronos)

Adjective

πολῠχρόνῐος • ‎(polukhrónios) m, f ‎(neuter πολῠχρόνῐον); second declension

1. of olden time, ancient
   • Homeric Hymn to Hermes 125
   1. long-standing
2. long-lasting
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 4.23
     • Hippocrates, Aphorisms 7.6
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.v55.1
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Long. 464b25
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1299a7
   • 341 BCE – 270 BCE, Epicurus, Sent. 28
   1. long protracted
      • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Lav.Pall. 128
      • 1 CE – 100 CE, Onasander, Strategikos 38.6
      • Palatine Anthology 5.254.14
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Fractures 10
      • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 75b
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.16.
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Ep. 17
   2. long-lived
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 5.16
        • Aristotle, History of Animals 9.7
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      • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 5.18.4
      • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Del. 282
      • 458 CE – 538 CE, Damascius, Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles 23

Declension

Antonyms

• (long-lasting): αἰώνῐος ‎(aiṓnios)

Descendants

• Latin: polychronius
  • English: polychronious

References

• πολυχρόνιος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πολυχρόνιος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «πολυχρόνιος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • enduring idem, page 273.
  • lasting idem, page 477.
  • long-lived idem, page 498.