chiton

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɪtn̩/, /ˈkaɪtɑn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɪtn̩/, /ˈkaɪtɒn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪtən

From Ancient Greek χιτών (khitṓn, “tunic”), from a Central Semitic *kittan, from the Akkadian 𒌆𒃰 (kitû, literally “flax, linen”), from Sumerian 𒄑𒃰 (kitû [GIŠ.GADA]).

• khiton

chiton (plural chitons or chitones)

1. (historical) A loose woolen tunic worn by men and women in Ancient Greece.
   • 1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History:

     On the night of our first attempt, we simply overdrank and passed out in our chitons in the woods near Francis’s house.

   • 1998, Colette Susan Czapski, “NM238: A Hellenistic Statue and Its Archaistic Support”, in Kim J. Hartswick, Mary Carol Sturgeon, editors, Stephanos: Studies in Honor of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, page 53:

     She wears a diaphanous himation that covers her torso, over a floor-length chiton of heavier fabric.

   • 2002, chapter I, in Nikolaos Kaltsas, editor, Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens‎^[1], page 156:

     She wears a chiton and himation, using both hands to hold the edge of the latter, in which she has gathered apples.

• Chiton (costume) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• American Heritage Dictionary (fourth edition, 2000) entry on the chiton

From New Latin chiton. See above.

chiton (plural chitons)

1. Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton.
   • 1969, Sam Hinton, chapter I, in Seashore Life of Southern California‎^[2], page 72:

     In the giant chiton, Cryptochiton, this girdle has expanded so as to completely cover the plates.

   • 1979, R. McNeill Alexander, chapter I, in The Invertebrates‎^[3], page 295:

     The chiton (Fig. 14.1 a) is depressed (dorso-ventrally flattened), with a large foot which has a flat sole.

   • 1996, Paul Henson, chapter I, in The Natural History of Big Sur‎^[4], page 70:

     The bright orange gumboot chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri) is the largest in the world.

• (mollusc): coat-of-mail shell, gumboot, loricate, polyplacophoran, polyplacophore, sea cradle, sea bug (archaic)

• chiton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ONCHIT

• IPA^(key): /ˈxi.tɔn/
• Hyphenation: chi‧ton

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χιτών (khitṓn).

chiton m (plural chitons)

1. chiton (Greek tunic)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χιτών (khitṓn).

chiton m (plural chitons or chitonen)

1. chiton (mollusc of the class Polyplacophora)

   Synonym: keverslak

• IPA^(key): /ki.tɔ̃/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χιτών (khitṓn, “tunic”).

chiton m (plural chitons)

1. chiton (clothing)

• Chiton (vêtement) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Borrowed from New Latin chiton.

chiton m (plural chitons)

1. chiton (mollusc)

   Synonym: oscabrion

• “chiton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “chiton” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

Borrowed from French chiton.

chiton n (plural chitoane)

1. chiton (clothing)