Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

χαλκήλατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλκήλατος χαλκήλατον

Structure: χαλκηλατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)lau/nw

Sense

  1. of beaten brass

Examples

  • οὐκ ἂν δυναίμην εἰσορῶν χαλκήλατον μέγαν κολοσσὸν φάκινον ἄρτον ἐσθίειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 48 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. of beaten brass

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

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