χάλιξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown, perhaps Pre-Greek. Probably cognate, ancestor, or descendant of Latin calx (“limestone, chalk”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰá.liks/ → /ˈxa.liks/ → /ˈxa.liks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰá.liks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰa.liks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.liks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.liks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.liks/

Noun

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

1. small stone, pebble
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Fragments 213
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, 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

Third declension of ὁ, ἡ χᾰ́λῐξ; τοῦ, τῆς χᾰ́λῐκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ χᾰ́λῐξ ho, hē khálix	τὼ χᾰ́λῐκε tṑ khálike	οἱ, αἱ χᾰ́λῐκες hoi, hai khálikes
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς χᾰ́λῐκος toû, tês khálikos	τοῖν χᾰλῐ́κοιν toîn khalíkoin	τῶν χᾰλῐ́κων tôn khalíkōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ χᾰ́λῐκῐ tôi, têi kháliki	τοῖν χᾰλῐ́κοιν toîn khalíkoin	τοῖς, ταῖς χᾰ́λῐξῐ / χᾰ́λῐξῐν toîs, taîs khálixi(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν χᾰ́λῐκᾰ tòn, tḕn khálika	τὼ χᾰ́λῐκε tṑ khálike	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς χᾰ́λῐκᾰς toùs, tā̀s khálikas
Vocative	χᾰ́λῐξ khálix	χᾰ́λῐκε khálike	χᾰ́λῐκες khálikes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• χαλικῖτις (khalikîtis)
• χαλικοκαύστης (khalikokaústēs)
• χαλικώδης (khalikṓdēs)
• χαλίκωμα (khalíkōma)

 

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • concrete idem, page 156.
  • rubble idem, page 724.