Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Chius
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Remove ads
English
Proper noun
Chius
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek Χῐ́ος (Khĭ́os).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Chius:
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʰi.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkiː.us]
Proper noun
Chius f sg (genitive Chiī); second declension
- Chios (an island in the eastern Aegean Sea in Greece)
- Chios (the capital city of Chios, North Aegean, island in the eastern Aegean Sea in Greece)
Usage notes
- Nouns of feminine gender are rare in this declension; Chius inherits its feminine gender from the Ancient Greek Χίος.
Declension
Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek Χῖος (Khîos), contracted from Χίιος (Khíios).
Pronunciation
- Chīus:
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʰiː.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkiː.us]
Adjective
Chīus (feminine Chīa, neuter Chīum); first/second-declension adjective
- Chian; of or from the Aegean island of Chios
- (substantively, masculine, chiefly in the plural) Chiot See also: Chii
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Chius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Chius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Chius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 301.
- Chius in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1114
Remove ads
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads