χαίτη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- χαίτᾱ (khaítā) – Doric
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₂it- (“curly hair”), the same root of Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬉𐬯𐬀 (gaēsa, “curly hair”) and Middle Irish gaiset (“bristly hair”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰǎi̯.tɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰɛ.te̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈçɛ.ti/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈçe.ti/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈçe.ti/
Noun
χαίτη • (khaítē) f (genitive χαίτης); first declension
- loose, flowing hair; used especially of back hair
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.141
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.567
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 634
- 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 10.28
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.175
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.15
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 1.14
- 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 16.105
- Tyrt. 1.39.Diehl
- Ruf., Onom. 14
- a mane of a horse or of a lion (also, metaphorically, of Aeschylus); opposed to λοφιά
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.439
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.405
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.509
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 5.5
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 7.1
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pelopidas 22
- 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1121
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 498b.28
- 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 658a.31
- 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 822
- a helmet’s crest
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Alexander the Great 16
- (figuratively, of trees) foliage
- 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Del. 81
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 6.16
- Anacreont. 17
- Anacreont. 18.12
- 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 17.1.15
Declension
First declension of ἡ χαίτη; τῆς χαίτης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ χαίτη hē khaítē | τὼ χαίτᾱ tṑ khaítā | αἱ χαῖται hai khaîtai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς χαίτης tês khaítēs | τοῖν χαίταιν toîn khaítain | τῶν χαιτῶν tôn khaitôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ χαίτῃ têi khaítēi | τοῖν χαίταιν toîn khaítain | ταῖς χαίταις taîs khaítais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν χαίτην tḕn khaítēn | τὼ χαίτᾱ tṑ khaítā | τᾱ̀ς χαίτᾱς tā̀s khaítās | ||||||||||
Vocative | χαίτη khaítē | χαίτᾱ khaítā | χαῖται khaîtai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κυανοχαίτης (kuanokhaítēs)
- ὀξῠβελεῖς χαῖται f pl (oxubeleîs khaîtai)
- χαιτήεις (khaitḗeis)
- χαίτωμα (khaítōma)
Descendants
- English: chaeta
- Greek: χαίτη (chaíti)
- Latin: macrochaeta
References
- “χαίτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χαίτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χαίτη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χαίτη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χαίτη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “χαίτα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- fur idem, page 350.
- hair idem, page 380.
- mane idem, page 511.
Greek
Etymology
Learnedly, from the Ancient Greek χαίτη (khaítē).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈçe.ti/
- Hyphenation: χαί‧τη
Noun
χαίτη • (chaíti) f (plural χαίτες)
- mane
Declension
declension of χαίτη
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | χαίτη • | χαίτες • |
genitive | χαίτης • | χαιτών • |
accusative | χαίτη • | χαίτες • |
vocative | χαίτη • | χαίτες • |
References
- χαίτη - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.