χάλκεος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • χᾰλκοῦς (khalkoûs) Attic
  • χᾰ́λκειος (khálkeios), χᾰλκήιος (khalkḗios) Epic

Etymology

From χᾰλκός (khalkós, copper) + -εος (-eos).

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

χᾰ́λκεος (khálkeos) m (feminine χᾰλκέᾱ, neuter χᾰ́λκεον); first/second declension

  1. of copper or bronze, brazen
    1. (of statues)
    2. (χἀλκεος ἀγών) a contest for a shield of brass
  2. (figuratively) brazen, hard, stout, strong

Inflection

Derived terms

  • χαλκῆ μυῖα (khalkê muîa, a boy's game, a sort of blind man's buff)

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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