χοῦς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-. Doublet of χέω (khéō, “to pour”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰûːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰus/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xus/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xus/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xus/

Noun

χοῦς • (khoûs) m (genitive χοός); third declension

measure of capacity correspondent to 12 cotylae
soil excavated or heaped up
dust, cloud of dust
Synonyms: κονιορτός (koniortós), κονίσαλος (konísalos)

Declension

Third declension of χοῦς, χοός (contracted)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	χοῦς	χοόε	χόες
Genitive	χοός	χοοῖν	χοῶν
Dative	χοοΐ	χοοῖν	χουσί(ν)
Accusative	χοῦν	χοόε	χοοῦς
Vocative	χοῦ	χοόε	χόες

Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Derived terms

χοαῖος (khoaîos)
χοϊκός (khoïkós)
χοΐσκος (khoḯskos)

Descendants

→ English: chous

Further reading

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