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χαίνω (chainō) to gape wide ^G:V

Included with: χαίνω,

[Refs 6th c.BC+]; subjunctive χάσκῃς [Refs]; infinitive χάσκειν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; participle χαίνων [Refs 6th c.BC+]: Ionic dialect feminine χασκευσα [Refs 3rd c.BC+] Papyrus (also middle χασκόμενοι [Refs 3rd c.AD+]: present χαίνω only in late writers, [Refs 5th c.BC+] at Title Page, etc., (ἐπι-) [Refs 2nd c.AD+]future χᾰνοῦμαι (ἐγ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist 2 ἔχᾰνον [Refs 8th c.BC+]; aorist 1 ἔχᾱνα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect κέχηνα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Doric dialect 3rd.pers. plural κεχάναντι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐκεχήνεσαν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; early Attic dialect κεχήνη [Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist 2 χάνοι, χανών, and perfect participle κεχηνώς:—yawn, gape, τότε μοι χάνοι εὐρεῖα χθών then may earth yawn for me, i.e. to swallow me, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; especially of opening the mouth wide, [αἷμα] ἀνὰ στόμα καὶ κατὰ ῥῖνας πρῆσε χανών [Refs]; πρὸς κῦμα χανὼν ἀπὸ θυμὸν ὀλέσσαι, of one drowning, [χαίνων “Anthologia Graeca” 11.418 (from Trajan) ">Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a wound, variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of shellfish, αἵ γα μὰν κόγχαι.. κεχάναντι πᾶσαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a goose, πλατυγίζοντα καὶ κεχηνότα [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of fruit, burst with ripeness, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

__2 after [Refs 8th c.BC+], gape in eager expectation, χάσκοντες κούφαις ἐλπίσι τερπόμεθα Sol.[same place]: frequently in Comedy texts, ὅτε δὴ 'κεχήνη προσδοκῶν τὸν Αἰσχύλον when I was all agape, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; λύκος ἔχανεν the wolf opened his mouth (for nothing), proverbial of disappointed hopes, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἔς τι (i.e. νόμισμα) [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἄνω κεχηνώς, of a stargazer, [Refs 5th c.BC+]gaping fools, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 yawn from weariness, ennui, or inattention, [Refs]; χάσκεις αὐτό; are you yawning? paying no attention? [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 metaphorically, ἀναπληροῦν τὸ κεχηνὸς τῆς ἑρμηνείας fill the lacuna, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II less frequently, speak with open mouth, utter, with accusative, σὲ δὴ τὰ δεινὰ ῥήματ᾽.. καθ᾽ ἡμῶν.. χανεῖ; [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III in [Refs 2nd c.AD+] opened and swallowed the chariot.—Not in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; rare in early Prose, except [Refs 5th c.BC+]