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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χάος ( kháos , “ vast chasm, void ” ) . Doublet of gas , which was borrowed through Dutch.
In Early Modern English, used in the sense of the original Greek word. In the meaning "primordial matter" from the 16th century. Figurative usage in the sense "confusion, disorder" from the 17th century. The technical sense in mathematics and science dates from the 1960s.
Pronunciation
Noun
chaos (usually uncountable , plural chaoses )
The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony .
Any state of disorder ; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration .
to descend into chaos
After the earthquake, the local hospital was in chaos
1977 , Irwin Edman, Adam, the Baby, and the Man from Mars , page 54 :or out of these chaoses order may be made, out of this ferment a clear wine of life. There are chaoses that have gone too far for retrieval
( mathematics ) A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
( fantasy ) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law .
( obsolete ) A vast chasm or abyss .
( obsolete , rare ) A given medium ; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment .
1624 , Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton ], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC , partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 211 :What is the centre of the Earth, is it pure element only, as Ariſtotle decrees, inhabited (as Paracelſus thinks) with creatures, whoſe Chaos is the Earth: or with Fayries , as the woods and waters (according to him) are with Nymphes ; or as the Aire with ſpirits?
Synonyms
Antonyms
(antonym(s) of " classical cosmogony" ): cosmos
(antonym(s) of " state of disorder" ): order
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Translations
state of disorder
Albanian: rrëmujë (sq) f
Arabic: فَوْضَى f ( fawḍā )
Hijazi Arabic: لخبطة f ( laḵbaṭa ) , حوسة f ( ḥōsa ) , خربطة f ( ḵarbaṭa )
Armenian: քաոս (hy) ( kʻaos )
Azerbaijani: hərc-mərclik
Belarusian: хао́с m ( xaós ) , ха́ас m ( xáas )
Bulgarian: хаос (bg) m ( haos ) , безредие (bg) n ( bezredie )
Catalan: caos (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 混沌 (zh) ( hùndùn ) , 混亂 / 混乱 (zh) ( hùnluàn ) , 渾沌 / 浑沌 (zh) ( húndùn )
Czech: chaos (cs) m
Danish: kaos n
Dutch: chaos (nl) m , wanorde (nl) c
Esperanto: ĥaoso , kaoso
Estonian: kaos , tohuvabohu (et)
Finnish: kaaos (fi) , epäjärjestys (fi) , sekasorto (fi)
French: chaos (fr) m
Galician: caos (gl) m
Georgian: ქაოსი (ka) ( kaosi )
German: Chaos (de) n , Unordnung (de) f , Durcheinander (de) n . Wirrwarr (de) m , Wirrsal (de) f or n
Alemannic German: Chrüsimüsi n
Greek: χάος (el) n ( cháos )
Ancient Greek: ταραχή f ( tarakhḗ )
Hebrew: תוהו ובוהו (he) ( tóhu vavóhu ) , כאוס (he) ( kéos )
Hungarian: káosz (hu)
Icelandic: ringulreið (is) f
Ido: kaoso (io)
Indonesian: kekacauan (id) , prahara (id)
Interlingua: chaos
Irish: anord m
Italian: caos (it) m
Japanese: 混乱 (ja) ( こんらん, konran ) , 無秩序 (ja) ( むちつじょ, muchitsujo ) , 混沌 (ja) ( こんとん, konton ) , カオス (ja) ( kaosu )
Khmer: សង្ករ (km) ( saŋ, sɑŋkɑɑ, sɑŋka’ra’ )
Korean: 혼돈(混沌) (ko) ( hondon )
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: haoss m
Lithuanian: chaosas m
Macedonian: ха́ос m ( háos ) , безре́дие n ( bezrédie )
Malay: huru hara
Maori: kaumingomingo , aneatanga ( As an aftermath of war/ conflict )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: эмх замбараагүй байдал ( emx zambaraagüj bajdal )
Norwegian: kaos (no)
Old English: dwolma m
Ottoman Turkish: قارش ( karış )
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: آشوب (fa) ( âšub )
Plautdietsch: Wirwoa m
Polish: chaos (pl) m
Portuguese: caos (pt) m
Romanian: haos (ro) n
Romansch: caos m
Russian: ха́ос (ru) m ( xáos ) , хао́с (ru) m ( xaós ) , беспоря́док (ru) m ( besporjádok )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хаос m ( Bosnian, Serbian ) , каос m ( Croatian )
Roman: haos (sh) m ( Bosnian, Serbian ) , kaos (sh) m ( Croatian )
Slovene: kaos m
Spanish: caos (es)
Swahili: kesheshe
Swedish: kaos (sv) n
Tagalog: dimayaw , kaguluhan
Thai: ความยุ่งเหยิง (th) ( kwaam-yûng-yə̌əng ) , ความโกลาหล (th) ( kwaam-goo-laa-hǒn ) , ความสับสนวุ่นวาย
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: хао́с m ( xaós )
Vietnamese: hỗn loạn (vi) (混亂 )
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Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch chaos , from Middle Dutch caos , from Latin chaos , from Ancient Greek χάος ( kháos ) .
Noun
chaos (uncountable )
chaos ( disorder )
( cosmogony ) primordial disorder
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χάος ( kháos , “ vast chasm, void ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
chaos m inan
chaos ( state of disorder )
Antonym: řád
1875, Josef Durdík, Všeobecná aesthetika. :
Ano i když pomíjíme všechny všednější odstíny smyslu, básníci velebí řád, myslíce si při tom na protivu jeho, chaos, a vědouce, že ve všem co se líbí, musí být jistý řád; a na druhé straně mají právě zas řád za průjev nesvobody
Declension
Declension of chaos (hard masculine inanimate )
Related terms
See also
Further reading
chaos in Příruční slovník jazyka českého , 1935–1957
chaos in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého , 1960–1971, 1989
chaos in Internetová jazyková příručka
"chaos a řád" in Google Books search
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch caos , from Latin chaos , from Ancient Greek χάος ( kháos ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈxaː.ɔs/
Hyphenation: cha‧os
Noun
chaos m (uncountable )
chaos ( disorder )
Synonyms: baaierd , rommel , wanorde , warboel
( cosmogony ) primordial disorder
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin chaos , from Ancient Greek χάος ( kháos ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
chaos m (uncountable )
chaos
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χάος ( kháos ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
chaos n sg (genitive chaī ) ; second declension
Alternative letter-case form of Chaos
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type), singular only.
Descendants
References
“chaos ”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891 ) An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers
“chaos ”, in The Perseus Project (1999 ) Perseus Encyclopedia
“chaos ”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898 ), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities , New York: Harper & Brothers
“chaos ”, in William Smith, editor (1848 ), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , London: John Murray
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin chaos .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈxa.ɔs/
Rhymes: -aɔs
Syllabification: cha‧os
Noun
chaos m inan
( Greek mythology ) chaos ( unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony )
Hypernym: materia
chaos ( state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration )
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:zamieszanie
Antonym: ład
chaos ( behavior of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time )
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
chaos in Wielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
chaos in Polish dictionaries at PWN
chaos in PWN's encyclopedia
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
chaos m inan (genitive singular chaosu , nominative plural chaosy , genitive plural chaosov , declension pattern of dub )
chaos
Declension
References
“chaos ”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science ] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk , 2024