χύμα [ῠ], ατος, τό,
that which is poured out or flows, fluid, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 550b27, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.75; even χ. νιφάδος 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.23 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; χ. τέσσαρα, i.e. the hot, cold, moist, and dry, [[ 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 19. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 ingot, bar, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 7.303.104 (Orop., 3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; χ. χρυσοῦν [[ “Inscription Délos” 442 B 6 (2nd c.BC), [χρυσίου] [prev. work]1432 “Ab” i17 (Delos, 2nd c.BC, _plural_),compare 2nd c.BC: Agatharchides Geographus 28. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__3 metaphorically, confused mass, τῶν ἀριθμῶν [[ LXX.2Mac.2.24 ] LXX]; aggregate, [[ Theol.Ar. 34] Refs]; crowd, πρεσβυτέρων καὶ νεωτέρων Aristeas14.
__4 αὐτὰ τὰ χ. τῶν σφαιρῶν materials, constituents, [[ 6th c.AD: Philoponus, Joannes Philosophus “in Aristotelis Meteorologicorum librum primum commentarium - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 26.8; τοῦ χ. αὐτοῦ τῶν σφαιρῶν ἡ οὐσία [prev. work] 4.2. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__5 χ. καρδίας largeness of heart, [[ LXX.3Ki.4.25 (5.9). [On accent and quantity see Hdn.Gr. 2.15.] ] LXX]