Ancient Greek

Noun

χᾰ́λῐξ • ‎(khálix) m, f ‎(genitive χᾰ́λῐκος); third declension

1. small stone, pebble
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Fragments 213
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Podagra (Gout) 226
2. gravel, rubble (used in building and concrete making)
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.93
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cimon 13.7
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 5.4.6
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 839

Inflection

References

• χάλιξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χάλιξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «χάλιξ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • concrete idem, page 156.
  • rubble idem, page 724.

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “χάλιξ, -ικος [m., f.]”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1610
2. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “calx, -cis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 86