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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-, the same root of χέω (khéō, “to pour”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰûːs/ → /xus/ → /xus/
Noun
χοῦς • (khoûs) m (genitive χοός); third declension
- measure of capacity correspondent to 12 cotylae
- soil excavated or heaped up
- dust, cloud of dust
- Synonyms: κονιορτός (koniortós), κονίσαλος (konísalos)
Third declension of χοῦς, χοός (contracted)
| Case / #
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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| Nominative
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χοῦς
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χοόε
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χόες
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| Genitive
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χοός
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χοοῖν
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χοῶν
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| Dative
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χοοΐ
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χοοῖν
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χουσί(ν)
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| Accusative
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χοῦν
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χοόε
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χοοῦς
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| Vocative
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χοῦ
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χοόε
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χόες
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Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “χοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χοῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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