χαλκός

Alternative forms

• καυχός (kaukhós) – Cretan

Etymology

Uncertain. Has been compared to Proto-Slavic *želězo (“iron”), Latin ferrum, and Hittite [script needed] (ḫapalki-). Perhaps related to κάλχη (kálkhē, “purple”). Ultimately, Proto-Indo-European origin seems unlikely and the word is probably a borrowing.

Pronunciation

Noun

χᾰλκός • (khalkós) m (genitive χᾰλκοῦ); second declension

1. copper, or copper alloyed with tin, bronze
2. (poetic) anything made of metal
3. copper, cauldron, urn
4. copper money
5. the phrase χαλκοῦ ἄνθος (khalkoû ánthos): particle thrown off by copper while cooling

References

• χαλκός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χαλκός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χαλκός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χαλκός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• χαλκός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5475 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brass idem, page 93.
  • bronze idem, page 100.
  • cinerary urn idem, page 132.
  • copper idem, page 173.
  • kettle idem, page 468.
  • urn idem, page 940.
• 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
• 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

Noun

χαλκός • (chalkós) m (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, metallurgy) copper