χθές

See also: χθες

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐχθές (ekhthés)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰyés.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰtʰés/ → /xθes/ → /xθes/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰtʰés/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰtʰes/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xθes/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xθes/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xθes/

Adverb

χθές • (khthés)

1. yesterday

Derived terms

• χθεσῐνός (khthesinós)

Descendants

• Greek: χθες (chthes)
• Mariupol Greek: псес (psjes)

See also

• σήμερον (sḗmeron)
• αὔριον (aúrion)

References

• “χθές”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χθές”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χθές in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G5504 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 996
• “χθές”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011