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χάλκεος
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰál.ke.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰal.ke.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈxal.ce.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈxal.ce.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈxal.ce.os/
Adjective
χᾰ́λκεος • (khắlkeos) m (feminine χᾰλκέᾱ, neuter χᾰ́λκεον); first/second declension
- of copper or bronze, brazen
- (of statues)
- (χἀλκεος ἀγών) a contest for a shield of brass
- (figuratively) brazen, hard, stout, strong
Inflection
Derived terms
- χαλκεόφωνος (khalkeóphōnos)
- χαλκῆ μυῖα (khalkê muîa, “a boy's game, a sort of blind man's buff”)
Descendants
- → Translingual: Chalceus
References
- “χάλκεος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χάλκεος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χάλκεος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χάλκεος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χάλκεος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “χάλκεος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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