different between chthonian vs chthonic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (khthónios, “in or under the ground”), from ???? (khth?n, “ground”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k???n??n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /????n??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?o?ni.?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???ni.?n/

Adjective

chthonian (not generally comparable, comparative more chthonian, superlative most chthonian)

1. Pertaining to the underworld; being beneath the earth.
   • 1950, W. K. C. Guthrie, The Greeks and Their Gods, 1955, Beacon Press, p. 219,

     ...I intend to apply the name chthonian to all gods and spirits of the earth, whether their functions are concerned with agriculture or with the grave and the world beyond, or (as often) with both.

   • 2015, Susan Deacy, Gods—Olympian or Chthonic, in Esther Eidinow, Julia Kindt (editors), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, page 359,

     For example, the Oresteia, 'that treasure house of chthonian concepts' (Scullion 1994: 111), categorizes gods in ways that do not match the rigid terms of the foundational scholarship on Olympian versus chthonian deities.

Related terms

• Chthonia
• chthonic

Translations

Noun

chthonian (plural chthonians)

1. A dweller in the mythical underworld.

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (khth?n, “ground, soil”) +? -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??n?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???n?k/
• Hyphenation: chthon?ic

Adjective

chthonic (not generally comparable, comparative more chthonic, superlative most chthonic)

1. Dwelling within or under the earth. [from late 18th c.]

Derived terms

• chthonic law

Related terms

• Chthonia
• chthonian
• cthonic

Translations

Further reading

• chthonic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia