χαλκῖτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χάλκη (khálkē, “purple dye”) +‎ -ῖτις (-îtis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰal.kîː.tis/ → /xalˈci.tis/ → /xalˈci.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰal.kîː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰalˈki.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xalˈci.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xalˈci.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xalˈci.tis/

Noun

χᾰλκῖτῐς • (khalkîtis) f (genitive χᾰλκῑ́τῐδος); third declension

1. copper-ore, worked in Cyprus
2. (mineralogy) rock alum
3. crown daisy (Glebionis coronaria)

   Synonyms: βούφθᾰλμον (boúphthalmon), χᾰλκᾰ́νθεμον (khalkánthemon), χᾰ́λκᾰνθον (khálkanthon), χᾰλκᾰ́ς (khalkás), χρῡσᾰ́νθεμον (khrūsánthemon)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ χᾰλκῖτῐς; τῆς χᾰλκῑ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χᾰλκῖτῐς hē khalkîtis	τὼ χᾰλκῑ́τῐδε tṑ khalkī́tide	αἱ χᾰλκῑ́τῐδες hai khalkī́tides
Genitive	τῆς χᾰλκῑ́τῐδος tês khalkī́tidos	τοῖν χᾰλκῑτῐ́δοιν toîn khalkītídoin	τῶν χᾰλκῑτῐ́δων tôn khalkītídōn
Dative	τῇ χᾰλκῑ́τῐδῐ têi khalkī́tidi	τοῖν χᾰλκῑτῐ́δοιν toîn khalkītídoin	ταῖς χᾰλκῑ́τῐσῐ / χᾰλκῑ́τῐσῐν taîs khalkī́tisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν χᾰλκῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn khalkī́tida	τὼ χᾰλκῑ́τῐδε tṑ khalkī́tide	τᾱ̀ς χᾰλκῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s khalkī́tidas
Vocative	χᾰλκῖτῐς khalkîtis	χᾰλκῑ́τῐδε khalkī́tide	χᾰλκῑ́τῐδες khalkī́tides
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.

Further reading

• “χαλκῖτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χαλκῖτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette