Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χαλκοῦς ‎(khalkoûs) Attic
• χάλκειος ‎(khálkeios) Epic
• χαλκήιος ‎(khalkḗios) Epic

Adjective

χάλκεος • ‎(khálkeos) m ‎(feminine χαλκέα, neuter χάλκεον); first/second declension

1. of copper or bronze, brazen
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.15
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.371
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.4
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.30
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.723
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 3.84
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.317
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.335
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 7.220
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.398
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.440
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.331
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1359
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 686
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 392
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1591
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 711
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 683
   1. (of statues)
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.81
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.95
      • 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 272
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, On Organization 21
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1410.A.33
      • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 38
   2. (χἀλκεος ἀγών) a contest for a shield of brass
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 10.22
2. (figuratively) brazen, hard, stout, strong
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.704
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.152
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Demosthenes 11
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 8.27
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.490
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.222
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.241
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1
3. (χαλκῆ μυῖα) a boy's game, a sort of blind man's buff
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Herodas, Collected Works 9.A
   • 100 CE – 200 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 9.123

Inflection

References

• χάλκεος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χάλκεος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χάλκεος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «χάλκεος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «χάλκεος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• χάλκεος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brazen idem, page 94.
  • bronze idem, page 100.
  • copper idem, page 173.