χήρ-α,
Ionic dialect χήρη, ἡ, widow, χῆραι γυναῖκες [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.289; μήτηρ χ. 22.499; μὴ παῖδ᾽ ὀρφανικὸν θήῃς χ. τε γυναῖκα 6.432; λείπειν τινὰ χ. ἐν μεγάροισιν 22.484, 24.725, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 653, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 348, “Tr.” 380; χήρας δὲ γυναῖκας ἐποίησαν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.71 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; as a name of Hera, [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 8.22.2 (χῆραι· αἱ μὴ ἔχουσαι ἄνδρας, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus; ἡ μονωθεῖσα ἀπ᾽ ἀνδρὸς χ. 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 3.47). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 Comedy texts, of a dish, widowed, i.e. without sauce, [[ 4th c.BC: Sotades Comicus 1.26. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 later masculine χῆρος, widower, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 612b34 (of birds), 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 17, Grammars post 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus “Epim.” 286. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II χῆρος, α, ον, Adj, metaphorically, bereaved, χῆρα μέλαθρα [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 862 (_anapaest meter_); μάνδραι 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Cererem” 106; βίος “epigram Gr.” 406.13 (from Iconium)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὐνή [[ “IG” 14.1389 i 12; δόμος 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 22 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; δρυμοὶ χ. bereft of men, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 9.84 (1st c.AD: Antiphanes Macedo Epigrammaticus): with _genitive_, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.408; φάρσος.. στελεοῦ χῆρον ἐλαϊνέου “Anthologia Graeca” 6.297 (from Phanias), compare 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 117.6; χήρους γυναικῶν οἰκεῖν 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 7.3.4; τὰ χῆρα φρονήσεως 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.601; ναῦς ὕδατος χ. 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 13.28. (Cf. χωρίς, χατίζω,] Refs 8th c.BC+] Sanskrit jáhāti 'abandon, renounce'.)