χῶρος

See also: χώρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

This entry is compared to χώρα (khṓra), but both were taken from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰɔ̂ː.ros/ → /ˈxo.ros/ → /ˈxo.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰɔ̂ː.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰo.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.ros/

Noun

χῶρος • (khôros) m (genitive χώρου); second declension

1. space, room, place (in which a thing is)
2. dwelling place
3. locality
4. station
5. district, region, territory, country, land
6. field, farm, estate
7. northeast wind

Declension

Second declension of ὁ χῶρος; τοῦ χώρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χῶρος ho khôros	τὼ χώρω tṑ khṓrō	οἱ χῶροι hoi khôroi
Genitive	τοῦ χώρου toû khṓrou	τοῖν χώροιν toîn khṓroin	τῶν χώρων tôn khṓrōn
Dative	τῷ χώρῳ tôi khṓrōi	τοῖν χώροιν toîn khṓroin	τοῖς χώροις toîs khṓrois
Accusative	τὸν χῶρον tòn khôron	τὼ χώρω tṑ khṓrō	τοὺς χώρους toùs khṓrous
Vocative	χῶρε khôre	χώρω khṓrō	χῶροι khôroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• χώρα (khṓra)

Derived terms

• χωρέω (khōréō)

 

Descendants

• Greek: χώρος (chóros)
• →? Old Georgian: ქორი (kori, “(room) upstairs; home”) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “χῶρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χῶρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χῶρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χῶρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• χῶρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “χῶρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5566 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • place idem, page 616.
  • situation idem, page 780.
  • space idem, page 797.
  • spot idem, page 804.