χοῦς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-, the same root of χέω (khéō, “to pour”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰûːs/ → /xus/ → /xus/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰûːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰus/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xus/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xus/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xus/

Noun

χοῦς • (khoûs) m (genitive χοός); third declension

1. measure of capacity correspondent to 12 cotylae
2. soil excavated or heaped up
3. dust, cloud of dust

   Synonyms: κονιορτός (koniortós), κονίσαλος (konísalos)

Third declension of χοῦς, χοός (contracted)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	χοῦς	χοόε	χόες
Genitive	χοός	χοοῖν	χοῶν
Dative	χοοΐ	χοοῖν	χουσί(ν)
Accusative	χοῦν	χοόε	χοοῦς
Vocative	χοῦ	χοόε	χόες
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Derived terms

• χοαῖος (khoaîos)
• χοϊκός (khoïkós)
• χοΐσκος (khoḯskos)

 

Descendants

• → English: chous

Further reading

• “χοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χοῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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, →ISBN