χῖ
χῖ,
- v.l. for χεῖ, Hp. VC 1.
χῖ (τὸ) indécl. la lettre X, Hpc. V.C. 895 ; Plut. M. 738.
χῖ
- 1Χ, χ, χῖ, τό, indecl., twenty-second letter of Gr. alphabet: as numeral, χ 600, ʼχ 600, 000: but inInscrr., Χ, is the first letter of χίλιοι, αι, α, 1000.—Changes of χ, in the dialects:
- 1Doric for θ, as ὄρνιχος for ὄρνιθος.
- 2Ionic represented by κ, as δέκομαι κιθών for δέχομαι χιτών.
- 3put before λ to strengthen the sound, as χλαῖνα for λαῖνα, χλιαρός for λιαρός. The Poets in some words treated χ as a double consonant, so that a short vowel before it becomes long, as in βρόχος, ἰᾱχή, ἰᾱχέω (qq. v.), φαιο_χίτων.