ξεῖ

Shape comes from Phoenician 𐤎 (s‬). For name, compare φεῖ (pheî), χεῖ (kheî), ψεῖ (pseî).

• ξῖ (xî)
• ξῦ (xû)

ξεῖ • (xeî) n (indeclinable)

1. xi, the name for the fourteenth letter Ξ (X), ξ (x) of the Ancient Greek alphabet.

• Greek: ξι (xi)

• “ξεῖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ξεῖ in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ξεῖ • (xeî)

1. inflection of ξέω (xéō):
   1. third-person singular present active indicative
   2. second-person singular present active imperative