χηρ-εύω,
intransitive, to be without, lack, with genitive, νῆσος ἀνδρῶν χ. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.124, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 28, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 4.59: γῆ χ. τῶν ἐκπονούντων 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.25; ὁλκὰς τῶν ἐμπλεόντων χηρεύουσα 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 1.1 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τῶν τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ὀργίων χ.[[ Ach. Tat. 4.1; οὐδέποτε χ. τῶν ὄντων τινὸς ὁ κόσμος 2nd-3rd c.AD: Hermes Trismegistus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 1.41.6; χ. ἀπό τινος 7th c.AD: Stephanus Medicus “in Hp.” 1.219 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 absolutely of a woman, to be widowed, live in widowhood, [[ 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.51, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 30.11,33 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of birds, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 347 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also of men, to be a widower, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Ma.” 24 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—middle, χηρεύσῃ λέχος [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 1089. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 live in solitude, of a fugitive, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 479 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II transitive, bereave, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 440; πεσὼν χηρεύσει σύνοικον 4th-5th c.AD: Aphthonius Rhetor “Προγυμνάσματα - Rhet.” 13. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]