χαμηλός

• χθᾰμᾰλός (khthămălós)

From χαμαί (khamaí, “to the earth, on the earth”), a frozen case-form of χθών (khthṓn, “earth”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm. Compare πάλαι (pálai), παραί (paraí). The ending could be formed after the antonym ὑψηλός (hupsēlós).^[1]

χᾰμηλός • (khămēlós) m (feminine χᾰμηλή, neuter χᾰμηλόν); first/second declension

1. low on the ground
2. (figuratively) of low station
3. (figuratively) diminutive, trifling

• Greek: χαμηλός (chamilós)

• “χαμηλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χαμηλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χαμηλός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “χαμηλός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Learnedly, from Hellenistic Koine Greek χαμηλός (khamēlós, “lowered”). Then Ancient Greek sense: "trivial". ^[1]

• IPA^(key): /xa.miˈlos/
• Hyphenation: χα‧μη‧λός

χαμηλός • (chamilós) m (feminine χαμηλή, neuter χαμηλό)

1. low, lowered
2. base

• χθαμαλός (chthamalós, “of low ground”) (rare)

• χαμηλο- (chamilo-) compounds:
  Greek terms prefixed with χαμηλο-
• χαμηλό ανάγλυφο n (chamiló anáglyfo, “low or bas relief”)