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χαλκεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλκεία

Structure: χαλκει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

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Declension

First declension

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

  • καὶ μὴν οὐδ’ ἡ τῶν οἰκήσεών γε συνυφὴ καὶ σύμπασα οἰκοδομία καὶ σκευῶν πάντων ἀπεργαστική, χαλκεία τε καὶ ἡ τῶν τεκτονικῶν καὶ πλαστικῶν καὶ πλεκτικῶν καὶ ἔτι συμπάντων ὀργάνων παρασκευή, δήμῳ τὸ πρόσφορον ἔχουσα, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐπ’ ἀρετῇ λεγομένη. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 15:4)
  • δεινὸσ δὲ καὶ πρὸσ τὰ χαλκεῖα τὰ ἐν τῷ βαλανείῳ προσελθὼν καὶ βάψασ ἀρύταιναν βοῶντοσ τοῦ βαλανέωσ αὐτὸσ αὑτοῦ καταχέασθαι καὶ εἰπεῖν ὅτι λέλουται ἀπιὼν κἀκεῖ ’οὐδεμία σοι χάρισ’. (Theophrastus, Characters, 8:2)
  • τῇσι δὲ βουκόλιαί τε βοῶν χάλκειά τε δύνειν τεύχεα, πυροφόρουσ τε διατμήξασθαι ἀροὔρασ ῥηίτερον πάσῃσιν Ἀθηναίησ πέλεν ἔργων, οἷσ αἰεὶ τὸ πάροιθεν ὁμίλεον. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 11:24)
  • Αἱρεῖ δὲ Καῖσαρ ταύτῃ τὸ τεῖχοσ ἡμέρᾳ πέμπτῃ μετὰ τὸ πρῶτον, καὶ τῶν Ιοὐδαίων φυγόντων ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ παρέρχεται μετὰ χιλίων ἔνδον ὁπλιτῶν καὶ τῶν περὶ αὐτὸν ἐπιλέκτων, καθὸ καὶ τῆσ καινῆσ πόλεωσ ἐριοπώλιά τε ἦν καὶ χαλκεῖα καὶ ἱματίων ἀγορά, πρόσ τε τὸ τεῖχοσ πλάγιοι κατέτεινον οἱ στενωποί. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 377:1)
  • παρὰ δὲ τὴν πλευρὰν ἑκατέραν τοῦ δρόμου χαλκεῖα μεγάλα κεῖται, τὰσ βάσεισ ἔχοντα τετραγώνουσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 44 3:1)

Synonyms

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

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