χιλός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χειλός (kheilós)

Etymology

Unexplained. It has been compared with Russian жир (žir, “fat, lard”) and Czech žír (“fodder”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰiː.lós/ → /çiˈlos/ → /çiˈlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰiː.lós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰiˈlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /çiˈlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çiˈlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çiˈlos/

Noun

χῑλός • (khīlós) m (genitive χῑλοῦ); second declension

1. green fodder for cattle, forage, provender
2. pasturage

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ χῑλός; τοῦ χῑλοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χῑλός ho khīlós	τὼ χῑλώ tṑ khīlṓ	οἱ χῑλοί hoi khīloí
Genitive	τοῦ χῑλοῦ toû khīloû	τοῖν χῑλοῖν toîn khīloîn	τῶν χῑλῶν tôn khīlôn
Dative	τῷ χῑλῷ tôi khīlôi	τοῖν χῑλοῖν toîn khīloîn	τοῖς χῑλοῖς toîs khīloîs
Accusative	τὸν χῑλόν tòn khīlón	τὼ χῑλώ tṑ khīlṓ	τοὺς χῑλούς toùs khīloús
Vocative	χῑλέ khīlé	χῑλώ khīlṓ	χῑλοί khīloí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἄχιλος (ákhilos)
• βούχιλος (boúkhilos)
• εὔχιλος (eúkhilos)
• χιλεύω (khileúō)
• χιλήγονος (khilḗgonos)
• χιλόω (khilóō)
• χίλωμα (khílōma)
• χιλωτήρ (khilōtḗr)

 

References

• “χιλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χιλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χιλός 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