χιών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéyōm. Cognate with χεῖμα (kheîma, “snow”) and χειμών (kheimṓn, “winter”), Latin hiems, Welsh gaeaf, Sanskrit हिम (himá), Hittite 𒄀𒈠𒀭 (gimax), Armenian ձմեռ (jmeṙ), Proto-Slavic *zima.

Noun

χῐών • (khiṓn) f (genitive χῐόνος); third declension

  1. snow
  2. melted snow, ice water

Usage notes

Sometimes with long ῑ (ī) for the sake of meter.

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ χῐών; τῆς χῐόνος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ χῐών
hē khiṓn		 τὼ χῐόνε
tṑ khióne		 αἱ χῐόνες
hai khiónes
Genitive τῆς χῐόνος
tês khiónos		 τοῖν χῐόνοιν
toîn khiónoin		 τῶν χῐόνων
tôn khiónōn
Dative τῇ χῐόνῐ
têi khióni		 τοῖν χῐόνοιν
toîn khiónoin		 ταῖς χῐόσῐ / χῐόσῐν
taîs khiósi(n)
Accusative τὴν χῐόνᾰ
tḕn khióna		 τὼ χῐόνε
tṑ khióne		 τᾱ̀ς χῐόνᾰς
tā̀s khiónas
Vocative χῐών
khiṓn		 χῐόνε
khióne		 χῐόνες
khiónes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

References
  • χιών in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • χιών in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • χιών in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • χιών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • χιών in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • G5510 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • snow idem, page 789.
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