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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally derived as a nominal formation from χέω (khéō, “to pour”), but like χυμός (khumós, “juice, liquid”), it is unclear how the long -ῡ- can be explained.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰyː.lós/ → /çyˈlos/ → /çiˈlos/
Noun
χῡλός • (khūlós) m (genitive χῡλοῦ); second declension
- (in general) juice
- juice of plants
- Synonym: χυμός (khumós)
- animal juice
- chyle, juice produced by the digestion of food
- gruel, barley water
Inflection
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Descendants
References
Further reading
- “χυλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χυλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χυλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- juice idem, page 465.
- sap idem, page 734.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek χυλός (khulós).
Noun
χυλός • (chylós) m (plural χυλοί)
- gruel
Declension
Derived terms
- χυλοπίτα f (chylopíta, “Greek pasta, noodle”)
- χυλώδης (chylódis, “gruel like”)
- χύλωμα n (chýloma, “gruel, porridge”)
- χυλώνω (chylóno, “to become gruel like”)
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