χαίτη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χαίτᾱ (khaítā) — Doric

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₂it- (“curly hair”), the same root of Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬉𐬯𐬀 (gaēsa, “curly hair”) and Middle Irish gaiset (“bristly hair”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰǎi̯.tɛː/ → /ˈçɛ.ti/ → /ˈçe.ti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰǎi̯.tɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɛ.te̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈçɛ.ti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈçe.ti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈçe.ti/

Noun

χαίτη • (khaítē) f (genitive χαίτης); first declension

1. loose, flowing hair; used especially of back hair
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.141
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.567
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 634
   • 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 10.28
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.175
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.15
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 1.14
   • 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 16.105
   • Tyrt. 1.39.Diehl
   • Ruf., Onom. 14
2. a mane of a horse or of a lion (also, metaphorically, of Aeschylus); opposed to λοφιά
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.439
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.405
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.509
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 5.5
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 7.1
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pelopidas 22
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1121
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 498b.28
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 658a.31
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 822
3. a helmet’s crest
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Alexander the Great 16
4. (figuratively, of trees) foliage
   • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Del. 81
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 6.16
   • Anacreont. 17
   • Anacreont. 18.12
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 17.1.15

Declension

First declension of ἡ χαίτη; τῆς χαίτης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χαίτη hē khaítē	τὼ χαίτᾱ tṑ khaítā	αἱ χαῖται hai khaîtai
Genitive	τῆς χαίτης tês khaítēs	τοῖν χαίταιν toîn khaítain	τῶν χαιτῶν tôn khaitôn
Dative	τῇ χαίτῃ têi khaítēi	τοῖν χαίταιν toîn khaítain	ταῖς χαίταις taîs khaítais
Accusative	τὴν χαίτην tḕn khaítēn	τὼ χαίτᾱ tṑ khaítā	τᾱ̀ς χαίτᾱς tā̀s khaítās
Vocative	χαίτη khaítē	χαίτᾱ khaítā	χαῖται khaîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κυανοχαίτης (kuanokhaítēs)
• ὀξῠβελεῖς χαῖται f pl (oxŭbeleîs khaîtai)
• χαιτήεις (khaitḗeis)
• χαίτωμα (khaítōma)

Descendants

• English: chaeta
• Greek: χαίτη (chaíti)
• Latin: macrochaeta
• ⇒ Translingual: Aphanochaete, Bulbochaete

References

• “χαίτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χαίτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χαίτη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χαίτη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• χαίτη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “χαίτα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fur idem, page 350.
  • hair idem, page 380.
  • mane idem, page 511.

Greek

Alternative forms

• χήτη (chíti) (demotic, literary)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek χαίτη (khaítē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈçe.ti/
• Hyphenation: χαί‧τη

Noun

χαίτη • (chaíti) f (plural χαίτες)

1. mane

Declension

Declension of χαίτη

	singular	plural
nominative	χαίτη (chaíti)	χαίτες (chaítes)
genitive	χαίτης (chaítis)	χαιτών (chaitón)
accusative	χαίτη (chaíti)	χαίτες (chaítes)
vocative	χαίτη (chaíti)	χαίτες (chaítes)