χιτών
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰi.tɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰiˈton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /çiˈton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /çiˈton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /çiˈton/
Noun
χῐτών • (khitṓn) m (genitive χῐτῶνος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ χῐτών ho khitṓn |
τὼ χῐτῶνε tṑ khitône |
οἱ χῐτῶνες hoi khitônes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ χῐτῶνος toû khitônos |
τοῖν χῐτώνοιν toîn khitṓnoin |
τῶν χῐτώνων tôn khitṓnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ χῐτῶνῐ tôi khitôni |
τοῖν χῐτώνοιν toîn khitṓnoin |
τοῖς χῐτῶσῐ / χῐτῶσῐν toîs khitôsi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν χῐτῶνᾰ tòn khitôna |
τὼ χῐτῶνε tṑ khitône |
τοὺς χῐτῶνᾰς toùs khitônas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χῐτών khitṓn |
χῐτῶνε khitône |
χῐτῶνες khitônes | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
Derived terms
- χαλκοχίτων (khalkokhítōn)
- χιτώνιον (khitṓnion)
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)
Further reading
χιτών on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
