χαλκῖτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χάλκη (khálkē, “purple dye”) +‎ -ῖτις (-îtis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰal.kîː.tis/ → /xalˈci.tis/ → /xalˈci.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰal.kîː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰalˈki.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xalˈci.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xalˈci.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xalˈci.tis/

Noun

χᾰλκῖτῐς • (khălkîtĭs) f (genitive χᾰλκῑ́τῐδος); third declension

1. copper-ore, worked in Cyprus
2. (mineralogy) rock alum
3. crown daisy (Glebionis coronaria)

   Synonyms: βούφθᾰλμον (boúphthălmon), χᾰλκᾰ́νθεμον (khălkắnthemon), χᾰ́λκᾰνθον (khắlkănthon), χᾰλκᾰ́ς (khălkắs), χρῡσᾰ́νθεμον (khrūsắnthemon)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ χᾰλκῖτῐς; τῆς χᾰλκῑ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χᾰλκῖτῐς hē khălkîtĭs	τὼ χᾰλκῑ́τῐδε tṑ khălkī́tĭde	αἱ χᾰλκῑ́τῐδες hai khălkī́tĭdes
Genitive	τῆς χᾰλκῑ́τῐδος tês khălkī́tĭdos	τοῖν χᾰλκῑτῐ́δοιν toîn khălkītĭ́doin	τῶν χᾰλκῑτῐ́δων tôn khălkītĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ χᾰλκῑ́τῐδῐ têi khălkī́tĭdĭ	τοῖν χᾰλκῑτῐ́δοιν toîn khălkītĭ́doin	ταῖς χᾰλκῑ́τῐσῐ / χᾰλκῑ́τῐσῐν taîs khălkī́tĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν χᾰλκῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn khălkī́tĭdă	τὼ χᾰλκῑ́τῐδε tṑ khălkī́tĭde	τᾱ̀ς χᾰλκῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s khălkī́tĭdăs
Vocative	χᾰλκῖτῐς khălkîtĭs	χᾰλκῑ́τῐδε khălkī́tĭde	χᾰλκῑ́τῐδες khălkī́tĭdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “χαλκῖτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χαλκῖτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette