tender shoot
Usage:
Not a primary reference, possibly a variation
Morphhology:
Proper Name Adjective Feminine person
Definition:
Χλόη, -ης, ἡ (i.e. tender foliage),
Chloe: 1Co.1:11. (
AS)
Morphhology:
Proper Name Adjective Feminine person
Definition:
χλόη, ἡ,
Ionic dialect χλοίη [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
Doric dialect χλόα, ας [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:—
the first green shoot of plants in spring, ναὶ μὰ μήκωνος χλόην [
Refs 7th c.BC+]; especially
young green corn or
grass, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] [same place]; opposed to καρποί, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; χλόης γενομένης ἀπὸ τοῦ σπέρματος, of the corn when it first springs up, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν τῇ χ, opposed to ἐν τοῖς σπέρμασιν, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
2)
poetry,
young verdure of trees,
foliage, χ. ἀμπέλου [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
3)
juice of green shoots, χ. ἐλαίας [
Refs 2nd c.BC+] is probably
falsa lectio for{σαύρου χολῇ} in [
Refs]
4)
vegetables, herbs, greens, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II) epithet of Demeter,
Verdant, from the young corn, worshipped in Attica, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; also Χλόη alone, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Perh.
cognate with Lithuanian
[zcirc]élti 'to be green, grow', Latin
holus.)
Morphhology:
Noun Feminine
Definition:
"green"; Chloë, a Christian female; Chloe; feminine of apparently a primary word