χιτών

Alternative forms

• κῐθών (kithṓn) – Ionic
• κῐτών (kitṓn) – Doric
• χῐθών (khithṓn)

Etymology

Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀑𐀵 (ki-to). From some Central Semitic language *kittan, from the Akkadian [script needed] (kitû) or [script needed] (kita’um, “flax", "linen”), from Sumerian [script needed] (gada) or [script needed] (gida). Likely cognate with Latin tunica. See also English cotton.

Pronunciation

Noun

χῐτών • (khitṓn) m (genitive χῐτῶνος); 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

Further reading

• 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

Noun

χιτών • (chitón) m

1. Katharevousa form of χιτώνας (chitónas)