χειμών, ῶνος, ὁ,
(χεῖμα) winter, χειμῶνος δυσθαλπέος ὅς ῥά τε ἔργων ἀνθρώπους ἀνέπαυσεν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.549 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χειμῶνι in winter, [[ 21.283; ἐν χειμῶνι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.42, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 969, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.3.8; ἐν τῷ χ. [prev. author] “Cyr.” 8.8.17; χειμῶνος ὥρᾳ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.137 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also χειμῶνος in winter-time, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.8.9, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 415e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. μέσου in mid-winter, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 569.1; τοῦ χ. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]in the course of the winter, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.31; τοῦ αὐτοῦ χ. [prev. author] 8.30 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; διὰ χειμῶνος, διὰ τοῦ χ., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 74c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.9; χειμῶνα ] Refs 5th c.BC+]during winter, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1138 (variant{χειμῶνι})] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸν χ. during the winter, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.117, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.4.1; τὸν δεινὸν χ. [prev. author] “An.” 7.6.9; τὸν χ. ὅλον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 345; ὁ ἀμφὶ τὸν χ. χρόνος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.6.22 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὄρος ἄβατον ὑπὸ χειμῶνος in consequence of the cold weather, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.138, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.101: _plural_, νιφοστιβεῖς χειμῶνες 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 671 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to καύματα, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 829b; ἀμυντικὴ χειμώνων [prev. author] “Plt.” 280e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]