Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ξεῖνος ‎(xeînos) Epic, Ionic
• ξέννος ‎(xénnos) Aeolic

Adjective

ξένος • ‎(xénos) m ‎(feminine ξένη, neuter ξένον); first/second declension

1. foreign
2. strange, unusual

Declension

Noun

ξένος • ‎(xénos) m ‎(genitive ξένου); second declension

1. of parties giving or receiving hospitality: host and much more commonly guest
2. stranger
3. one who is hired: hired worker, mercenary
4. foreigner

Declension

Descendants

• English: xeno-

References

• ξένος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ξένος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ξένος» 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
• ξένος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3581”, 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.
  • alien idem, page 22.
  • foreign idem, page 336.
  • foreigner idem, page 336.
  • friend idem, page 345.
  • guest idem, page 378.
  • host idem, page 407.
  • pilgrim idem, page 613.
  • strange idem, page 823.
  • stranger idem, page 823.
  • visitor idem, page 955.

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ξένος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1034

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ξένος ‎(xénos).

Noun

ξένος • ‎(xénos) m ‎(plural ξένοι, feminine ξένη)

1. foreigner, alien
2. stranger
3. guest

Declension

Synonyms

• αλλοδαπός m ‎(allodapós)

Adjective

ξένος • ‎(xénos) m ‎(feminine ξένη, neuter ξένο)

1. foreign
2. strange, unfamiliar

Declension