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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χαλκός (khalkós, “copper”) + -ῐ́ς (-ís) or perhaps from the toponym Χαλκίς (Khalkís).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰal.kís/ → /xalˈcis/ → /xalˈcis/
Noun
χᾰλκῐ́ς • (khalkís) f (genitive χᾰλκῐ́δος); third declension
- unknown bird mentioned by Aristotle
- European roller (Coracias garrulus)
- migratory fish, perhaps the pilchard
- kind of poisonous lizard
- (at Lacedaemon) female slave
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “χαλκίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χαλκίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χαλκίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χαλκίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χαλκίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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