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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown, perhaps Pre-Greek. Probably cognate, ancestor, or descendant of Latin calx (“limestone, chalk”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰá.liks/ → /ˈxa.liks/ → /ˈxa.liks/
Noun
χᾰ́λῐξ • (khálix) m or f (genitive χᾰ́λῐκος); third declension
- small stone, pebble
- gravel, rubble (used in building and concrete making)
Inflection
ὁ, ἡ χᾰ́λῐξ ho, hē khálix
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τὼ χᾰ́λῐκε tṑ khálike
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οἱ, αἱ χᾰ́λῐκες hoi, hai khálikes
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τοῦ, τῆς χᾰ́λῐκος toû, tês khálikos
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τοῖν χᾰλῐ́κοιν toîn khalíkoin
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τῶν χᾰλῐ́κων tôn khalíkōn
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τῷ, τῇ χᾰ́λῐκῐ tôi, têi kháliki
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τοῖν χᾰλῐ́κοιν toîn khalíkoin
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τοῖς, ταῖς χᾰ́λῐξῐ / χᾰ́λῐξῐν toîs, taîs khálixi(n)
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τὸν, τὴν χᾰ́λῐκᾰ tòn, tḕn khálika
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τὼ χᾰ́λῐκε tṑ khálike
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τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς χᾰ́λῐκᾰς toùs, tā̀s khálikas
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χᾰ́λῐξ khálix
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χᾰ́λῐκε khálike
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χᾰ́λῐκες khálikes
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Derived terms
References
- “χάλιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χάλιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χάλιξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χάλιξ, -ικος [m., f.]”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1610
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “calx, -cis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 86