Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chrysaor

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: chrysaor
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A son of Poseidon and Medusa and brother of the winged horse Pegasus, often depicted as a young man, who sprang along with Pegasus from the blood of the decapitated Medusa.

Example Sentences

"Pegasus alone issues from the neck of the winged and decapitated Medusa,ᵇ or Chrysaor and Pegasus at the same moment.ᶜ"
"Medusa embraces a winged horse and a youth who have been identified as her sons, Pegasus and Chrysaor. This interpretation is problematic because it involves a temporal impossibility:⁷⁶ the inversion of time sequence. The myth, which is as early as Hesiod (Theogony, 270–82), states clearly that Pegasus was born after Medusa was decapitated."
"An innovation comes with Chrysaor, an enigmatic figure who appears in myth in multiple forms: the most famous is the offspring of Medusa and the progenitor of various monsters, including Geryon,³⁴ making Chrysaor hardly a heroic figure."

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χρυσάωρ (Khrusáōr).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: Χρυσάωρ

Inflected Forms

Khrysaor (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

Chrysaorian

Questions

What does chrysaor mean?: A son of Poseidon and Medusa and brother of the winged horse Pegasus, often depicted as a young man, who sprang along with Pegasus from the blood of the decapitated Medusa.
Where does chrysaor come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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