Chloe
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē, “young green shoot”), an epithet of goddess Demeter.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈkloʊ.i/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊi
Proper noun
editChloe
- A female given name from Ancient Greek
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 1:11::
- For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Strephon and Chloe:
- Of Chloe all the town has rung; / By ev'ry Size of Poets sung. / So beautiful a Nymph appears / But once in Twenty Thousand Years.
- 1981, William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa, H.Hamilton, →ISBN, page 24:
- Before he had met this one, Morgan had assumed that people called Chloe were either the neurotic brilliant daughters of Oxbridge dons or else silly screaming debutantes.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editfemale given name
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Anagrams
editCebuano
editEtymology
editFrom English Chloe, from Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē, “young green shoot”).
Proper noun
editChloe
- a female given name from Ancient Greek
Quotations
editFor quotations using this term, see Citations:Chloe.
Polish
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin Chloē.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editChloe f (indeclinable)
- (rare) a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek]
Further reading
edit- Chloe in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Tagalog
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈklowi/ [ˈkloː.wɪ]
- Rhymes: -owi
- Syllabification: Chlo‧e
Proper noun
editChloe (Baybayin spelling ᜃ᜔ᜎᜓᜏᜒ)
- a female given name from English
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