χαλκίς

See also: Χαλκίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χαλκός (khalkós, “copper”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ís) or perhaps from the toponym Χαλκίς (Khalkís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰal.kís/ → /xalˈcis/ → /xalˈcis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰal.kís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰalˈkis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xalˈcis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xalˈcis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xalˈcis/

Noun

χᾰλκῐ́ς • (khalkís) f (genitive χᾰλκῐ́δος); third declension

1. unknown bird mentioned by Aristotle
2. European roller (Coracias garrulus)
3. migratory fish, perhaps the pilchard
4. kind of poisonous lizard
5. (at Lacedaemon) female slave

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ χᾰλκῐ́ς; τῆς χᾰλκῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χᾰλκῐ́ς hē khalkís	τὼ χᾰλκῐ́δε tṑ khalkíde	αἱ χᾰλκῐ́δες hai khalkídes
Genitive	τῆς χᾰλκῐ́δος tês khalkídos	τοῖν χᾰλκῐ́δοιν toîn khalkídoin	τῶν χᾰλκῐ́δων tôn khalkídōn
Dative	τῇ χᾰλκῐ́δῐ têi khalkídi	τοῖν χᾰλκῐ́δοιν toîn khalkídoin	ταῖς χᾰλκῐ́σῐ / χᾰλκῐ́σῐν taîs khalkísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν χᾰλκῐ́δᾰ tḕn khalkída	τὼ χᾰλκῐ́δε tṑ khalkíde	τᾱ̀ς χᾰλκῐ́δᾰς tā̀s khalkídas
Vocative	χᾰλκῐ́ς khalkís	χᾰλκῐ́δε khalkíde	χᾰλκῐ́δες khalkídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Latin: chalcis

Further reading

• “χαλκίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χαλκίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χαλκίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χαλκίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• χαλκίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN