χιασμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χιάζω (khiázō, “mark with X”) (from χεῖ (kheî, “chi”)), + -μός (-mós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰiː.az.mós/ → /çi.azˈmos/ → /çi.azˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰiː.az.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰi.azˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /çi.azˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çi.azˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çi.azˈmos/

Noun

χῑᾰσμός • (khīasmós) m (genitive χῑᾰσμοῦ); second declension

1. placing crosswise, diagonal arrangement

Declension

Second declension of ὁ χῑασμός; τοῦ χῑασμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χῑασμός ho khīasmós	τὼ χῑασμώ tṑ khīasmṓ	οἱ χῑασμοί hoi khīasmoí
Genitive	τοῦ χῑασμοῦ toû khīasmoû	τοῖν χῑασμοῖν toîn khīasmoîn	τῶν χῑασμῶν tôn khīasmôn
Dative	τῷ χῑασμῷ tôi khīasmôi	τοῖν χῑασμοῖν toîn khīasmoîn	τοῖς χῑασμοῖς toîs khīasmoîs
Accusative	τὸν χῑασμόν tòn khīasmón	τὼ χῑασμώ tṑ khīasmṓ	τοὺς χῑασμούς toùs khīasmoús
Vocative	χῑασμέ khīasmé	χῑασμώ khīasmṓ	χῑασμοί khīasmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: quiasme
• → English: chiasm, chiasmus
• → French: chiasme
• → German: Chiasmus
• → Italian: chiasmo
• → Polish: chiazm
• → Romanian: chiasm
• → Spanish: quiasmo
• → Translingual: Chiasmus

Further reading

• χιασμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “χιασμός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “χιασμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press