χαλινός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χάλιννος (khálinnos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, a Pre-Greek origin is probable, as it is difficult to explain "χαλ-" from Indo-European and as a suffix "-ιν-" is frequent in Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

Noun

χᾰλῑνός • (khalīnós) m (genitive χᾰλῑνοῦ); second declension

1. bridle, rein, bit

   Synonyms: ἡνία (hēnía), ῥυτήρ (rhutḗr)

2. part of the tackle of a ship
3. anything that restrains from the outer
4. corner of the mouth of a horse or human

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: χαλινός (chalinós)
• → Arabic: كَالُون (kālūn), كَيْلُون (kaylūn, “lock installed onto something; padlock”)
• → New Latin: chalīnos (“corner of the mouth, the part of the cheek most close to the lips”)
• → Classical Syriac: ܟܠܴܢܳܐ (klānā, “bar or bolt for fastening doors, sera”)

Further reading

• “χαλινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χαλινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χαλινός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5469 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bit idem, page 80.
  • brake idem, page 93.
  • bridle idem, page 98.
  • curb idem, page 189.
  • rein idem, page 688.
  • strap idem, page 823.
  • thong idem, page 867.

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xa.liˈnos/
• Hyphenation: χα‧λι‧νός

Noun

χαλινός • (chalinós) m (plural χαλινοί)

1. formal variant of χαλινάρι (chalinári, “bridle; bit”)
2. frenulum

Declension