Chaos
Translingual
editEtymology
editFrom Latin chaos (“chaos”), from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos).
Proper noun
editChaos n
- A taxonomic genus within the family Amoebidae – several very large amoebae.
- (astronomy) A planetoid and cubewano orbiting in the Kuiper belt.
- Synonym: 19521 Chaos
Hypernyms
edit- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Protozoa - kingdom; Sarcomastigota - subkingdom; Amoebozoa - phylum; Protamoebae - subphylum; Lobosea - class; Euamoebida - order; Amoebidae - family
Further reading
edit- Chaos (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Chaos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Chaos (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- 19521 Chaos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin chaos (“chaos”), from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos).
Proper noun
editChaos
- (Greek mythology) In Greek mythology, the primordial state of disorder that exists before the creation of the world, or the first being or deity to exist.
- (astronomy) A planetoid and cubewano orbiting in the Kuiper belt.
- Synonym: 19521 Chaos
- (fantasy, science fiction) In the Warhammer franchise, a demonic antagonist that sends demons, monsters, warriors, and beasts to wage war on the games' setting.
- Chaos warrior, Chaos daemon
Derived terms
editTranslations
editAnagrams
editGerman
editEtymology
editFrom Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos). Cognate with English chaos.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editChaos n (strong, genitive Chaos, no plural)
Declension
editDeclension of Chaos [sg-only, neuter, strong]
Derived terms
editDerived terms
Further reading
edit- “Chaos” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Chaos” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Chaos” in Duden online
- Chaos on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek χάος (kháos).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkʰa.os/, [ˈkʰäɔs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.os/, [ˈkäːos]
Proper noun
editChaos n sg (genitive Chaī); second declension
- the shapeless primordial universe
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.5–9:
- Ante mare et terrās et quod tegit omnia caelum
ūnus erat tōtō nātūrae vultus in orbe,
quem dīxēre chaos: rudis indīgestaque mōlēs
nec quicquam nisi pondus iners congestaque eōdem
nōn bene iūnctārum discordia sēmina rērum.- Before the sea and the lands and the sky that covers over all things,
there was one face of nature in the whole world,
which they called chaos: a raw and unorganized mass,
and nothing if not an inert weight and, gathered in the same place,
the discordant seeds of things not well joined together.
- Before the sea and the lands and the sky that covers over all things,
- Ante mare et terrās et quod tegit omnia caelum
- the Underworld, Hell
Usage notes
edit- 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 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".
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type, nominative/accusative/vocative in -os), 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
editReferences
edit- “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)
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