πολυχρόνιος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πολῠ́χρονος (polúkhronos)

Etymology

πολυ- (polu-, “many”) +‎ χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) +‎ -ιος (-ios)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /po.ly.kʰró.ni.os/ → /po.lyˈxro.ni.os/ → /po.liˈxro.ni.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /po.ly.kʰró.ni.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /po.lyˈkʰro.ni.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /po.lyˈxro.ni.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /po.lyˈxro.ni.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /po.liˈxro.ni.os/

Adjective

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

1. of olden time, ancient
   • 7th–6th centuries BC, 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, Letters 17
   2. long-lived
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 5.16
        • Aristotle, History of Animals 9.7
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 87c
      • 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

Second declension of πολῠχρόνῐος; πολῠχρόνῐον (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		πολῠχρόνῐος polukhrónios	πολῠχρόνῐον polukhrónion		πολῠχρονῐ́ω polukhroníō	πολῠχρονῐ́ω polukhroníō		πολῠχρόνῐοι polukhrónioi	πολῠχρόνῐᾰ polukhrónia
Genitive		πολῠχρονῐ́ου polukhroníou	πολῠχρονῐ́ου polukhroníou		πολῠχρονῐ́οιν polukhroníoin	πολῠχρονῐ́οιν polukhroníoin		πολῠχρονῐ́ων polukhroníōn	πολῠχρονῐ́ων polukhroníōn
Dative		πολῠχρονῐ́ῳ polukhroníōi	πολῠχρονῐ́ῳ polukhroníōi		πολῠχρονῐ́οιν polukhroníoin	πολῠχρονῐ́οιν polukhroníoin		πολῠχρονῐ́οις polukhroníois	πολῠχρονῐ́οις polukhroníois
Accusative		πολῠχρόνῐον polukhrónion	πολῠχρόνῐον polukhrónion		πολῠχρονῐ́ω polukhroníō	πολῠχρονῐ́ω polukhroníō		πολῠχρονῐ́ους polukhroníous	πολῠχρόνῐᾰ polukhrónia
Vocative		πολῠχρόνῐε polukhrónie	πολῠχρόνῐον polukhrónion		πολῠχρονῐ́ω polukhroníō	πολῠχρονῐ́ω polukhroníō		πολῠχρόνῐοι polukhrónioi	πολῠχρόνῐᾰ polukhrónia
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		πολῠχρονῐ́ως polukhroníōs			πολῠχρονῐώτερος polukhroniṓteros			πολῠχρονῐώτᾰτος polukhroniṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• αἰώνῐος (aiṓnios)

Descendants

• Latin: polychronius
  • English: polychronious

Further reading

• “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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • enduring idem, page 273.
  • lasting idem, page 477.
  • long-lived idem, page 498.