χαλκίς

See also: Χαλκίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
 

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
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