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χαλκός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλκός χαλκοῦ

Structure: χαλκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. copper
  2. (poetic) anything made of metal
  3. other metals, such as bronze, brass
  4. copper, cauldron, urn
  5. copper money

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὗτοσ ἐποίησε τὸ θυσιαστήριον τὸ χαλκοῦν ἐκ τῶν πυρείων τῶν χαλκῶν, ἃ ἦσαν τοῖσ ἀνδράσι τοῖσ καταστασιάσασι μετὰ τῆσ Κορὲ συναγωγῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 38:22)
  • καὶ ἔργον κρεμαστόν, δύο στίχοι ροῶν χαλκῶν δεδικτυωμένοι, ἔργον κρεμαστόν, στίχοσ ἐπὶ στίχον. καὶ οὕτωσ ἐποίησε τῷ ἐπιθέματι τῷ δευτέρῳ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 7:6)
  • καὶ συνέκοψεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ Ἄχαζ τὰ συγκλείσματα τῶν μεχωνὼθ καὶ μετῇρεν ἀπ̓ αὐτῶν τὸν λουτῆρα καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν καθεῖλεν ἀπὸ τῶν βοῶν τῶν χαλκῶν τῶν ὑποκάτω αὐτῆσ καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὴν ἐπὶ βάσιν λιθίνην. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 16:17)
  • πωλῶν γὰρ βότρυσ μεστὴν ἀπῆρα τὴν γνάθον χαλκῶν ἔχων κἄπειτ’ ἐχώρουν εἰσ ἀγορὰν ἐπ’ ἄλφιτα. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 3:16)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνο οὐ χεῖρον εἰδέναι, ἤν τισ αὐτῶν χρυσοῦσ μὲν ᾖ καὶ πολυτάλαντοσ τὴν ὁλκήν, οὐκ ἀκριβὴσ δὲ τὴν ἐργασίαν, ἀλλὰ κομιδῇ ἰδιωτικὸσ καὶ ἀσύμμετροσ, πρὸ τῶν χαλκῶν τῶν Μύρωνοσ καὶ Πολυκλείτου καὶ τῶν Φειδίου καὶ Ἀλκαμένουσ λιθίνων ^ καθεδεῖται ἢ προτιμοτέραν χρὴ νομίζειν εἶναι τὴν τέχνην; (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 7:4)

Synonyms

  1. copper

  2. anything made of metal

  3. copper money

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