Chaos

From Latin chaos (“chaos”), from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos).

Chaos n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Amoebidae – several very large amoebae.
2. (astronomy) A planetoid and cubewano orbiting in the Kuiper belt.

   Synonym: 19521 Chaos

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Protozoa – kingdom; Sarcomastigota – subkingdom; Amoebozoa – phylum; Protamoebae – subphylum; Lobosea – class; Euamoebida – order; Amoebidae – family

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From Latin chaos (“chaos”), from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos).

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Chaos

1. (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.
2. (astronomy) A planetoid and cubewano orbiting in the Kuiper belt.

   Synonym: 19521 Chaos

3. (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

• primordial chaos

• oshac, Socha

From Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos). Cognate with English chaos.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaːɔs]

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• Hyphenation: Cha‧os
• Rhymes: -aːɔs

Chaos n (strong, genitive Chaos, no plural)

1. chaos

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From Ancient Greek χάος (kháos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʰa.ɔs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.os]

Chaos n sg (genitive Chaī); second declension

1. 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.

2. the Underworld, Hell

• The plural is a rare and very late development.

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type, nominative/accusative/vocative in -os), singular only.

A genitive plural Chaōrum appears only in very Late to Modern Latin.

• Italian: caosse, cao, caos
• Piedmontese: càos
• Spanish: caos

• “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)