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χάλκειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χάλκειος

Structure: χαλκει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: epic for xa/lkeos

Sense

  1. of copper or bronze, brasen, a forge, of brass

Examples

  • αἱ πλευραὶ αὐτοῦ πλευραὶ χάλκειαι, ἡ δὲ ράχισ αὐτοῦ σίδηροσ χυτόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 40:18)
  • πᾶσαι χάλκειαι, δυοκαίδεκα, Φράδμονοσ ἔργον, καὶ πᾶσαι γυμνῶν σκῦλον ἀπ’ Ἰλλυριῶν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7433)

Related

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

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