Κάλχας
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Liddell & Scott, J.B. Hoffman: from Κάλχη, murex purple, here "dark," sense "ponderer," because people that are pondering look melancholic (blue). Diviners were known for their pondering. Not traceable to an Indo-European root, thus hypothetically borrowed.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kál.kʰaːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkal.kʰas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkal.xas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkal.xas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkal.xas/
Proper noun edit
Κάλχᾱς • (Kálkhās) m (genitive Κάλχᾰντος); third declension
- a male given name: Calchas
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Κάλχᾱς ho Kálkhās | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Κάλχᾰντος toû Kálkhantos | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Κάλχᾰντῐ tôi Kálkhanti | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Κάλχᾰντᾰ tòn Kálkhanta | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Κάλχᾰν Kálkhan | ||||||||||||
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “Κάλχας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Κάλχας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Κάλχας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004