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Ancient Greek
Etymology
A loan of unknown origin. Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin. It cannot be decided whether the name of the mythological seer Κάλχας (Kálkhas) belongs here as well.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kál.kʰɛː/ → /ˈkal.çi/ → /ˈkal.çi/
Noun
κᾰ́λχη • (kálkhē) f (genitive κᾰ́λχης); first declension
- purple-fish (Hexaplex trunculus)
- Synonym: πορφῠ́ρᾱ (porphúrā)
- purple dye obtained from it
- (architecture) rosette on the capitals of columns
- crown daisy (Glebionis coronaria)
- Synonyms: βούφθᾰλμον (boúphthalmon), χᾰλκᾰ́νθεμον (khalkánthemon), χᾰ́λκᾰνθον (khálkanthon), χᾰλκᾰ́ς (khalkás), χᾰλκῖτῐς (khalkîtis), χρῡσᾰ́νθεμον (khrūsánthemon)
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Further reading
- “κάλχη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάλχη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάλχη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN