# Chaos
## Translingual
### Etymology

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

### Proper noun

Chaos n
* A taxonomic genus within the family Amoebidae – several very large amoebae.
* (astronomy) A planetoid and cubewano orbiting in the Kuiper belt.
    Synonym: 19521 Chaos

#### Hypernyms

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

### Further reading

* Chaos (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Chaos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Chaos (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* 19521 Chaos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## English
### Etymology

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

### Proper noun

Chaos
* (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.
* (astronomy) A planetoid and cubewano orbiting in the Kuiper belt.
    Synonym: 19521 Chaos
* (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

#### Derived terms

* primordial chaos

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* oshac, Socha

## German
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkaːɔs]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Cha‧os
* Rhymes: -aːɔs

### Noun

Chaos n (strong, genitive Chaos, no plural)
* chaos

#### Derived terms

* Chaosforschung
* Chaostheorie
* Chaot
* chaotisch

### Further reading

* “Chaos” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “Chaos” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “Chaos” in Duden online
* Chaos on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{de}$

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* chaos

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek χάος (kháos).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkʰa.os/, [ˈkʰäɔs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈka.os/, [ˈkäːos]

### Proper noun

Chaos n sg (genitive Chaī); second declension
* 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.
* the Underworld, Hell

#### Usage notes

* The plural is a rare and very late development.
   * 1838, Franz Bernhard von Bucholtz, Geschichte der Regierung Ferdinand des Ersten, aus gedruckten und ungedruckten Quellen, page 282:Testor Deum Quod causam ignoro, ob quam Mag. Do. vra (quandoquidem ipsi familiares mei more fidelium Chaorum fidelitatem Mis Regiae […] . Licet, quod inimici mei Mag. Dominationi vrae dolose interpretati sunt, qualiter ego more paganismico in regnum Chaorum et in regiam Mm Inimicum ad inferendum properassem.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
   * 1878, Ludwig Dindorff, Karl Müller, Diodori Siculi bibliothecae quae supersunt ex nova recensione, volume 2, page 604:Graeci Phasin fluvium transgress per Chaorum, Phasianorum, Chaldaeorum etc. regiones in Chenium montem evadunt unde ingenti gaudio mare prospiciunt.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
   * 1904, Giacomo Tropea, Rivista di storia antica, page 607:In paragrapho prima Diodorus de Graecorum adventu in Chaorum terras tradit: […] Ipse Dindorfius in latina versione Xenophontis scribit "Chaorum" atque inter uncos "Thaochorum".(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Declension

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.

#### Descendants

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

### References

* “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)