Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

• (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/

Noun

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

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

Inflection

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (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/

Adjective

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

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

Inflection

References

• 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, 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

Greek

Noun

χάος • ‎(cháos) n ‎(plural χάη)

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

Declension

Synonyms

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

External links

• χάος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el