Χίος

Likely to have come from a Pre-Greek language. Related to Κίος or Κέως ("Ceos island").

Χῐ́ος • (Khĭ́os) f (genitive Χῐ́ου); second declension

1. Chios (an island in the eastern Aegaean Sea)

• Αἰθᾰ́λειᾰ (Aithắleiă)

• Χῖος (Khîos)

• Greek: Χίος (Chíos)
• Latin: Chios
  • English: Chios
  • Polish: Chios

• “Χίος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Χίος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Χίος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• G5508 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,006

• Chios on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Ancient Greek Χίος (Khíos)

• IPA^(key): /ˈçios/

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• Hyphenation: Χί‧ος

Χίος • (Chíos) f

1. Chios (an island, and its capital, in the northeast Aegaean Sea)

• Χίος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

Χίος • (Chíos) m (plural Χίοι, feminine Χία)

1. (formal) a man from the island of Chios

   Polytonic spelling: Χῖος

From the ancient adjective Χῖος:

• the noun Xίος or Χιώτης m (Chiótis), feminine: Χιώτισσα (Chiótissa) ("person from Chios")
• the adjective χιώτικος (chiótikos) ("from Chios")

• Χιώτης m (Chiótis), feminine: Χιώτισσα (Chiótissa) (standard)