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

  • "ψόφοισ δὲ χρῶνται περὶ τὰ νυκτέλια, καὶ χαλκοκρότουσ τὰσ τοῦ θεοῦ τιθήνασ προσαγορεύουσι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 3:19)

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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