Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /xroníz̚zo/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xroníz̚zo/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xɾonízo/

Verb

χρονίζω • ‎(khronízō)

1. to spend time
   • Herodotus, Histories 3.61
   1. to last long, continue
      • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 847
      • Aristotle, History of Animals 3.22.3
      • Aristotle, History of Animals 4.10.4
   2. to persevere
      • Plato, Phaedrus 255.B
   3. to take time, tarry, linger, delay, be slow
      • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1356
      • Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 64
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.49
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.16
      • Aristotle, Rhetoric 2.3.12
      • Polybius, Histories 33.16.6
      • The Gospel of Matthew 24.48
   4. (of ailments) to be/become chronic
      • Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1248
   5. (of wine) to be/become old, to have age
      • Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 33.A
2. (passive) to be prolonged or protracted
   • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 54, (Compare The Libation Bearers 957)
   • Andocides, Collected Works 27.1
   • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 9.5.3
   • Aristotle, Problems 13.1
   1. to grow up
      • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 727

Inflection

References

• χρονίζω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χρονίζω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «χρονίζω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G5549”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• LSJ 8th edition

Greek

Alternative forms

• χρονιάζω ‎(chroniázo)

Verb

χρονίζω • ‎(chronízo) ‎(simple past χρόνισα)

1. take a long time, drag
2. endure, last a long time
3. delay, drag
4. age one year

Conjugation

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