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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Together with Mycenaean Greek 𐀑𐀵 (ki-to) and likely Latin tunica from some Central Semitic *kittān, as found in Aramaic כִּיתּוּנָא (kittōnā, “tunic”) / ܟܝܬܘܢܐ (kittōnā, “tunic”), Hebrew כֻּתֹּנֶת (kuttṓnĕṯ, “tunic”), which is derived from the local word for flax, found as Aramaic כּיתָּנָא (kittānā, “flax”) / ܟܬܢܐ (kettānā, “flax”), Akkadian 𒃰 (kitûm, “flax”), Sumerian 𒃰 (gada, “flax”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰi.tɔ̌ːn/ → /çiˈton/ → /çiˈton/
Noun
χῐτών • (khitṓn) m (genitive χῐτῶνος); third declension
- tunic
- coat of mail
- clothes
- coat, covering
- part of a shoe which covers the foot
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- “χιτών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χιτών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χιτών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χιτών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- χιτών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G5509 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.
- 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, →ISBN
Greek
Noun
χιτών • (chitón) m
- Katharevousa form of χιτώνας (chitónas)
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