Chios

• Khios, Chio, Scio, Xio

From Latin Chios, from Ancient Greek Χίος (Khíos).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈki.ɑs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkiː.ɒs/

Chios

1. One of the Aegean islands of Greece.
2. The capital of the island of Chios, Greece.
3. A domestic sheep breed commonly accepted to be originated on the Greek island of Chios.

• (town): Chora

• Chian
• Chiot

• Chois, Schio, Sochi

• Chius

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χῐ́ος (Khĭ́os).

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

Chios f sg (genitive Chiī); second declension

1. Chios (an island in the eastern Aegean Sea in Greece)

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

Second-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

• Aethalia

• Chīus (adjective)

• English: Chios

• “Chī̆os”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Chĭŏs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 300/3.
• “Chios”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Chios (⁓us)” on page 310/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)