Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κιθών ‎(kithṓn) (Ionic)
• κιτών ‎(kitṓn) (Doric)
• χιθών ‎(khithṓn)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /xitón/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çitón/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çitón/

Noun

χιτών • ‎(khitṓn) m ‎(genitive χιτῶνος); third declension

1. man's tunic
2. tunic
3. coat of mail
4. clothes
5. coat, covering
6. part of a shoe which covers the foot

Inflection

Antonyms

• (man's tunic): ἱμάτιον ‎(himátion), πέπλος ‎(péplos), χλαμύς ‎(khlamús)

Descendants

• English: chiton
• Greek: χιτώνας m ‎(chitónas), χιτώνιο n ‎(chitónio)
• Portuguese: quitão, quíton
• Russian: хито́н m ‎(xitón)

References

• χιτών in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χιτών in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χιτών in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «χιτών» 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
• «χιτών» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G5509”, 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.
  • coat idem, page 141.
  • doublet idem, page 248.
  • frock idem, page 346.
  • jerkin idem, page 462.
  • skin idem, page 781.
  • slough idem, page 785.
  • tunic idem, page 900.
  • vest idem, page 949.
• 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

Greek

Noun

χιτών • ‎(chitón) m

1. Katharevousa form of χιτώνας ‎(chitónas)