χοῦς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-, the same root of χέω (khéō, “to pour”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰôːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰus/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xus/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /xus/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /xus/
Noun
χοῦς • (khoûs) m (genitive χοός); third declension
- measure of capacity corrispondent to 12 cotylae
- soil excavated or heaped up
- dust, cloud of dust
- Synonym: κονιορτός (koniortós)
Descendants
- → English: chous
References
- 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