χίμαιρα

Feminine form of χῐ́μᾰρος (khímaros).

χῐ́μαιρᾰ • (khímaira) f (genitive χῐμαίρᾱς); first declension

1. a she-goat
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.181
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 322
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 232
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.12
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 4.2.20
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 13.8
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 445
   • Eustathius 1625.34, (Compare Aristotle, History of Animals 3.21.5)

• “χίμαιρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χίμαιρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χίμαιρα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χίμαιρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• χίμαιρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chimaera idem, page 130.
  • goat idem, page 365.

χίμαιρα • (chímaira) f (plural χίμαιρες)

1. chimera, chimaera (an unrealistic dream)
2. (mythology) chimera, chimaera (a monster)
3. (biology) chimera, chimaera (an organism consisting of genetically different parts)

• χίμαιρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el