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χαλκεοκάρδιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλκεοκάρδιος χαλκεοκάρδιον

Structure: χαλκεοκαρδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with heart of brass

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡμφιτρύωνοσ ὁ χαλκεοκάρδιοσ υἱόσ, ὃσ τὸν λῖν ὑπέμεινε τὸν ἄγριον, ἤρατο παιδόσ, τῶ χαρίεντοσ Ὕλα, τῶ τὰν πλοκαμῖδα φορεῦντοσ, καί νιν πάντ’ ἐδίδαξε πατὴρ ὡσεὶ φίλον υἱέα, ὅσσα μαθὼν ἀγαθὸσ καὶ ἀοίδιμοσ αὐτὸσ ἔγεντο· (Theocritus, Idylls, 3)

Synonyms

  1. with heart of brass

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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