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κάλχη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάλχη

Structure: καλχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the murex or purple limpet.

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κάλχη κάλχᾱ κάλχαι
Genitive κάλχης κάλχαιν καλχῶν
Dative κάλχῃ κάλχαιν κάλχαις
Accusative κάλχην κάλχᾱ κάλχᾱς
Vocative κάλχη κάλχᾱ κάλχαι

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Ὀλὸσ οὔ με λιβρὸσ ἱρῶν Λιβάδεσσιν, οἱᾶ κάλχη Ὑποφοινίῃσι τέγγει· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 251)
  • καὶ ἄλλα δ’ ἐστὶ μέταλλα, καὶ δὴ τῆσ σάνδικοσ καλουμένησ, ἣν δὴ καὶ Ἀρμένιον καλοῦσι χρῶμα, ὅμοιον κάλχῃ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 14 14:2)

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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