χῖ
ἐπάμεροι· τί δέ τις; τί δ' οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος → Neverlasting: What is a somebody? What is a nobody? You are a dream of a shadow | Creatures of a day. What is a someone, what is a no one? Man is the dream of a shade.
English (LSJ)
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
χῖ: τό, τὸ γράμμα χ, Ἱππ. Κεφ. Τρωμ. 895· ἴδε Χ χ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
(τό) :
indécl.
la lettre Χ.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
χῖ: τό indecl. хи (название буквы χ).
Middle Liddell
1. Χ, χ, χῖ, τό, indecl., twenty-second letter of Gr. alphabet: as numeral, χ41 = 600, 'χ = 600, 000: but inInscrr., Χ, is the first letter of χίλιοι, αι, α, = 1000.—Changes of χ, in the dialects:
1. doric for θ, as ὄρνιχος for ὄρνιθος.
2. ionic represented by κ, as δέκομαι κιθών for δέχομαι χιτών.
3. put 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.
