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

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

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• English: chaeta
• Greek: χαίτη (chaíti)
• Latin: macrochaeta

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fur idem, page 350.
  • hair idem, page 380.
  • mane idem, page 511.

Greek

Etymology

Learnedly, from the Ancient Greek χαίτη (khaítē).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

χαίτη • (chaíti) f (plural χαίτες)

1. mane

Declension

References