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χαλκόνωτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλκόνωτος χαλκόνωτον

Structure: χαλκονωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. brass-backed

Examples

  • φόβον τ’ Ἀχαιῶν, χαλκόνωτον ἀσπίδα τήνδ’, ἣν πατὴρ τοῦδ’ ἀμφὶ πλεύρ’ ἐβάλλετο, μή νυν πορεῦσαι Πηλέωσ ἐφ’ ἑστίαν, μηδ’ ἐσ τὸν αὐτὸν θάλαμον, οὗ νυμφεύσεται μήτηρ νεκροῦ τοῦδ’ Ἀνδρομάχη, λύπασ ὁρᾶν, ἀλλ’ ἀντὶ κέδρου περιβόλων τε λαί̈νων ἐν τῇδε θάψαι παῖδα· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests 1:5)
  • ἀλλ’ οὖν πατρῴων οὐ λαχὼν ἕξεισ ὅμωσ ἐν ᾗ ταφήσῃ χαλκόνωτον ἰτέαν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests 3:12)

Synonyms

  1. brass-backed

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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