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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χιάζω (khiázō, “mark with X”) (from χεῖ (kheî, “chi”)), + -μός (-mós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰiː.az.mós/ → /çi.azˈmos/ → /çi.azˈmos/
Noun
χῑᾰσμός • (khīasmós) m (genitive χῑᾰσμοῦ); second declension
- placing crosswise, diagonal arrangement
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- χιασμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “χιασμός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “χιασμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press