# χαίτη
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* χαίτᾱ (khaítā) — Doric

### Etymology

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₂it- (“curly hair”), the same root of Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬉𐬯𐬀 (gaēsa, “curly hair”) and Middle Irish gaiset (“bristly hair”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʰǎi̯.tɛː/ → /ˈçɛ.ti/ → /ˈçe.ti/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /kʰǎi̯.tɛː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈkʰɛ.te̝/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈçɛ.ti/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈçe.ti/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈçe.ti/

### Noun

χαίτη • (khaítē) f (genitive χαίτης); first declension
* loose, flowing hair; used especially of back hair
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.141
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.567
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 634
** 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 10.28
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.175
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.15
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 1.14
** 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 16.105
** Tyrt. 1.39.Diehl
** Ruf., Onom. 14
* a mane of a horse or of a lion (also, metaphorically, of Aeschylus); opposed to λοφιά
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.439
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.405
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.509
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 5.5
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 7.1
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pelopidas 22
** 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1121
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 498b.28
** 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 658a.31
** 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 822
* a helmet’s crest
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Alexander the Great 16
* (figuratively, of trees) foliage
** 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Del. 81
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 6.16
** Anacreont. 17
** Anacreont. 18.12
** 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 17.1.15

#### Derived terms

* κυανοχαίτης (kuanokhaítēs)
* ὀξῠβελεῖς χαῖται f pl (oxubeleîs khaîtai)
* χαιτήεις (khaitḗeis)
* χαίτωμα (khaítōma)

#### Descendants

* English: chaeta
* Greek: χαίτη (chaíti)
* Latin: macrochaeta

### References

* “χαίτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “χαίτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “χαίτη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* χαίτη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* χαίτη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “χαίτα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. fur idem, page 350.hair idem, page 380.mane idem, page 511.
* ↑ 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, pages 1607-8

## Greek
### Alternative forms

* χήτη (chíti) (demotic, literary)

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek χαίτη (khaítē).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈçe.ti/
* Hyphenation: χαί‧τη

### Noun

χαίτη • (chaíti) f (plural χαίτες)
* mane

#### Declension

| | singular | plural |
| nominative | χαίτη • | χαίτες • |
| genitive | χαίτης • | χαιτών • |
| accusative | χαίτη • | χαίτες • |
| vocative | χαίτη • | χαίτες • |

### References

* ↑ χαίτη, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language