The story
- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromχάος“chasm, void, empty space”
- English todaychao-
Combining form from chaos. Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekχάος all →
gaschaoschaotropism
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.