Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

χαλκόκροτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλκόκροτος χαλκόκροτον

Structure: χαλκοκροτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = xalkh/latos, Eur.

Sense

  1. sounding with brass, brasen-hoofed

Examples

  • χαλκόκροτον δὲ λαβοῦσα νεκρῶν πάρα φάσγανον εἴσω σαρκὸσ ἔβαψεν, ἄχει δὲ τέκνων ἔπεσ’ ἀμφὶ τέκνοισι. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 3:10)

Synonyms

  1. sounding with brass

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

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