Chaos

See also: chaos, CHAOS, and chãos

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin chaos (“chaos”), from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos).

Proper noun

Chaos n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Amoebidae – several very large amoebae.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Protozoa - kingdom; Sarcomastigota - subkingdom; Amoebozoa - phylum; Protamoebae - subphylum; Lobosea - class; Euamoebida - order; Amoebidae - family

Further reading

• Chaos (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chaos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːɔs/

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Noun

Chaos n (genitive Chaos, no plural)

1. chaos

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Chaosforschung
• Chaostheorie

• Chaot
• chaotisch

Further reading

• “Chaos” in Duden online

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Latin

Alternative forms

• chaos

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χάος (kháos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰa.os/, [ˈkʰäɔs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.os/, [ˈkäːos]

Proper noun

Chaos n sg (genitive Chaī); second declension

1. the shapeless primordial universe
2. the Underworld, Hell

Usage notes

• The plural is a rare and very late development.

Examples.

• 1838, Franz Bernhard von Bucholtz, Geschichte der Regierung Ferdinand des Ersten, aus gedruckten und ungedruckten Quellen, page 282:

  Testor Deum Quod causam ignoro, ob quam Mag. Do. vra (quandoquidem ipsi familiares mei more fidelium Chaorum fidelitatem Mis Regiae [...]. Licet, quod inimici mei Mag. Dominationi vrae dolose interpretati sunt, qualiter ego more paganismico in regnum Chaorum et in regiam Mm Inimicum ad inferendum properassem.

• 1878, Ludwig Dindorff, Karl Müller, Diodori Siculi bibliothecae quae supersunt ex nova recensione, volume 2, page 604:

  Graeci Phasin fluvium transgress per Chaorum, Phasianorum, Chaldaeorum etc. regiones in Chenium montem evadunt unde ingenti gaudio mare prospiciunt.

• 1904, Giacomo Tropea, Rivista di storia antica, page 607:

  In paragrapho prima Diodorus de Graecorum adventu in Chaorum terras tradit: […] Ipse Dindorfius in latina versione Xenophontis scribit "Chaorum" atque inter uncos "Thaochorum".

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Chaos
Genitive	Chaī
Dative	Chaō
Accusative	Chaos
Ablative	Chaō
Vocative	Chaos

A genitive plural Chaōrum appears only in very Late to Modern Latin.

Descendants

• Italian: caosse, cao, caos

References

• “Chăŏs or Chăus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chăŏs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 298/3.
• “chaos” on page 309/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)