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κάλυξ
κάλυξ
Ancient Greek
Noun
κάλυξ • (kálux) f, m (genitive κᾰ́λῠκος); third declension
- (plural) Some kind of woman's ornament
- A covering of a flower or fruit: calyx, husk, shell, pod
- The alkanet (Anchusa tinctoria, now Alkanna matthioli)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ κᾰ́λῠξ | τὼ κᾰ́λῠκε | οἱ, αἱ κᾰ́λῠκες | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς κᾰ́λῠκος | τοῖν κᾰλῠ́κοιν | τῶν κᾰλῠ́κων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ κᾰ́λῠκῐ | τοῖν κᾰλῠ́κοιν | τοῖς, ταῖς κᾰ́λῠξῐ | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν κᾰ́λῠκᾰ | τὼ κᾰ́λῠκε | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κᾰ́λῠκᾰς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰ́λῠξ | κᾰ́λῠκε | κᾰ́λῠκες | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Synonyms
- (Alkanet): ἄγχουσα (ánkhousa)
Descendants
References
- κάλυξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κάλυξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάλυξ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «κάλυξ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.