Κάλχας

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

Liddell & Scott, J.B. Hoffman: from Κάλχη, murex purple, here "dark," sense "ponderer," because people that are pondering look melancholic (blue). Diviners were known for their pondering. Not traceable to an Indo-European root, thus hypothetically borrowed.

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Κάλχᾱς • (Kálkhās) m (genitive Κάλχᾰντος); third declension

  1. a male given name: Calchas

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Κάλχᾱς; τοῦ Κάλχᾰντος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Κάλχᾱς
ho Kálkhās
Genitive τοῦ Κάλχᾰντος
toû Kálkhantos
Dative τῷ Κάλχᾰντῐ
tôi Kálkhanti
Accusative τὸν Κάλχᾰντᾰ
tòn Kálkhanta
Vocative Κάλχᾰν
Kálkhan
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Descendants

References

  • “Κάλχας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Κάλχας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Κάλχας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004
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