χαλκῖτις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χάλκη (khálkē, “purple dye”) + -ῖτις (-îtis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰal.kîː.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰalˈki.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xalˈci.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /xalˈci.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /xalˈci.tis/
Noun
χᾰλκῖτῐς • (khalkîtis) f (genitive χᾰλκῑ́τῐδος); third declension
- copper-ore, worked in Cyprus
- (mineralogy) rock alum
- crown daisy (Glebionis coronaria)
- Synonyms: βούφθᾰλμον (boúphthalmon), γᾰρουλέου (garouléou), κᾰ́λθα (káltha), κᾰ́λχη (kálkhē), χᾰλκᾰ́νθεμον (khalkánthemon), χᾰ́λκᾰνθον (khálkanthon), χᾰλκᾰ́ς (khalkás), χουρζητά (khourzētá), χρῡσᾰ́νθεμον (khrūsánthemon)
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ χᾰλκῖτῐς; τῆς χᾰλκῑ́τῐδος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ χᾰλκῖτῐς hē khalkîtis | τὼ χᾰλκῑ́τῐδε tṑ khalkī́tide | αἱ χᾰλκῑ́τῐδες hai khalkī́tides | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς χᾰλκῑ́τῐδος tês khalkī́tidos | τοῖν χᾰλκῑτῐ́δοιν toîn khalkītídoin | τῶν χᾰλκῑτῐ́δων tôn khalkītídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ χᾰλκῑ́τῐδῐ têi khalkī́tidi | τοῖν χᾰλκῑτῐ́δοιν toîn khalkītídoin | ταῖς χᾰλκῑ́τῐσῐ / χᾰλκῑ́τῐσῐν taîs khalkī́tisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν χᾰλκῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn khalkī́tida | τὼ χᾰλκῑ́τῐδε tṑ khalkī́tide | τᾱ̀ς χᾰλκῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s khalkī́tidas | ||||||||||
Vocative | χᾰλκῖτῐς khalkîtis | χᾰλκῑ́τῐδε khalkī́tide | χᾰλκῑ́τῐδες khalkī́tides | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “χαλκῖτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χαλκῖτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette