χάος

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Ancient GreekEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Uncertain. Has traditionally been connected to χαίνω (khaínō), χάσκω (kháskō, “I gape, yawn”)

PronunciationEdit

• (5th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰá.os/

• (1st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰáos/

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /xáos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xáos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xáos/

NounEdit

χάος • (kháos) n (genitive χάεος, χάους); third declension

1. the primordial state of existence
2. space, air
3. abyss, chasm
4. infinite darkness

InflectionEdit

Third declension of χάος, χάεος (uncontracted)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	χάος	χάεε	χάεᾰ
Genitive	χάεος	χαέοιν	χαέων
Dative	χάεϊ	χαέοιν	χάεσσῐ(ν)
Accusative	χάος	χάεε	χάεᾰ
Vocative	χάος	χάεε	χάεᾰ
Dialectal forms:
Notes:	This inflection pattern originally had a sigma (i.e. *χάεσος), which was dropped early in the history of Ancient Greek.

Third declension of χάος, χάους (contracted)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	χάος	χάει	χάη
Genitive	χάους	χαοῖν	χαῶν
Dative	χάει	χαοῖν	χάεσῐ(ν)
Accusative	χάος	χάει	χάη
Vocative	χάος	χάει	χάη
Dialectal forms:
Notes:	The irregular accentuation of this paradigm is explained by the fact that it is the contracted version of the above paradigm.

DescendantsEdit

• English: chaos
• Georgian: ქაოსი (kaosi)
• Greek: χάος (cháos)
• Latin: chaos
• Russian: хаос (xaos)

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

• (5th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰá.os/

• (1st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰáos/

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /xáos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xáos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xáos/

AdjectiveEdit

χάος • (kháos) m, f (neuter χάον); second declension

1. Alternative spelling of χάϊος (kháïos) "genuine, true"

InflectionEdit

    Second declension of χάος, χάον

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	χάος	χάον		χάω	χάω		χάοι	χάα
Genitive	χάου	χάου		χάοιν	χάοιν		χάων	χάων
Dative	χάῳ	χάῳ		χάοιν	χάοιν		χάοις	χάοις
Accusative	χάον	χάον		χάω	χάω		χάους	χάα
Vocative	χάε	χάον		χάω	χάω		χάοι	χάα

ReferencesEdit

• χάος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χάος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «χάος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,006
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

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GreekEdit

NounEdit

χάος • (cháos) n (plural χάη)

1. chaos, disorder, mess
2. (mathematics) chaos

DeclensionEdit

declension of χάος

	singular	plural
nominative	χάος •	χάη •
genitive	χάους •	χαών •
accusative	χάος •	χάη •
vocative	χάος •	χάη •

SynonymsEdit

• (disorder, chaos): ακαταστασία f (akatastasía)

Further readingEdit

• χάος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el