χιλός

Ancient Greek

Unexplained. It has been compared with Russian жир (žir, “fat, lard”) and Czech žír (“fodder”).

χῑλός • (khīlós) m (genitive χῑλοῦ); second declension

Second declension of ὁ χῑλός; τοῦ χῑλοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χῑλός ho khīlós	τὼ χῑλώ tṑ khīlṓ	οἱ χῑλοί hoi khīloí
Genitive	τοῦ χῑλοῦ toû khīloû	τοῖν χῑλοῖν toîn khīloîn	τῶν χῑλῶν tôn khīlôn
Dative	τῷ χῑλῷ tōî khīlōî	τοῖν χῑλοῖν toîn khīloîn	τοῖς χῑλοῖς toîs khīloîs
Accusative	τὸν χῑλόν tòn khīlón	τὼ χῑλώ tṑ khīlṓ	τοὺς χῑλούς toùs khīloús
Vocative	χῑλέ khīlé	χῑλώ khīlṓ	χῑλοί khīloí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“χιλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“χιλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
χιλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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, →ISBN