Chius

Chius

1. plural of Chiu

• CHUIs, Chuis, USICH, cuish

From Ancient Greek Χῐ́ος (Khíos).

• Chios

• Chius: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰi.us/, [ˈkʰiʊs̠]
• Chius: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈki.us/, [ˈkiːus]

Chius f sg (genitive Chiī); second declension

1. Chios (an island in the eastern Aegean Sea in Greece)
2. Chios (the capital city of Chios, North Aegean, island in the eastern Aegean Sea in Greece)

• Nouns of feminine gender are rare in this declension; Chius inherits its feminine gender from the Ancient Greek Χίος.

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

From Ancient Greek Χῖος (Khîos), contracted from Χίιος (Khíios).

• Chīus: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰiː.us/, [ˈkʰiːʊs̠]
• Chīus: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈki.us/, [ˈkiːus]

Chīus (feminine Chīa, neuter Chīum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Chian; of or from the Aegean island of Chios
2. (substantively, masculine, chiefly in the plural) Chiot
   See also: Chii

First/second-declension adjective.

• Chīī
• Chīum

• “Chius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Chius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Chius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 301.
• Chius in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1114