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Χῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Χῖος Χῖη Χῖον

Structure: Χι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from Xi/os

Sense

  1. Chian, of or from Chios, Homer
  2. the Chians
  3. ace-dot

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative Χίος Χίᾱ Χίον
Genitive Χίου Χίᾱς Χίου
Dative Χίῳ Χίᾱͅ Χίῳ
Accusative Χίον Χίᾱν Χίον
Vocative Χίε Χίᾱ Χίον
DualN/A/V Χίω Χίᾱ Χίω
G/D Χίοιν Χίαιν Χίοιν
PluralNominative Χίοι Χίαι Χία
Genitive Χίων Χιῶν Χίων
Dative Χίοις Χίαις Χίοις
Accusative Χίους Χίᾱς Χία
Vocative Χίοι Χίαι Χία
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective Χίος Χίου Χιώτερος Χιωτέρου Χιώτατος Χιωτάτου
Adverb Χίως Χιώτερον Χιώτατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐπαινοῦνται δὲ καὶ αἱ Χῖαι κύλικεσ, ὧν μνημονεύει Ἕρμιπποσ ἐν Στρατιώταισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 61 1:3)
  • Ὑποδημάτιον δὲ ποιέεσθαι μολύβδινον, ἔξωθεν τῆσ ἐπιδέσιοσ ἐπιδεδεμένον, οἱο͂ν αἱ χῖαι κρηπῖδεσ Ῥυθμὸν εἶχον‧ ἀλλ’ οὐδὲν αὐτοῦ δεῖ, ἤν τισ ὀρθῶσ μὲν τῇσι χερσὶ διορθώσῃ, ὀρθῶσ δὲ τοῖσιν ὀθονίοισιν ἐπιδέῃ, ὀρθῶσ δὲ καὶ τὰσ ἀναλήψιασ ποιοῖτο. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 62.8)

Synonyms

  1. the Chians

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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