Κάλχας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Liddell & Scott, J.B. Hoffman: from Κάλχη, murex purple, here "dark," sense "ponderer," because people that are pondering look melancholic (blue). Diviners were known for their pondering. Not traceable to an Indo-European root, thus hypothetically borrowed.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kál.kʰaːs/ → /ˈkal.xas/ → /ˈkal.xas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kál.kʰaːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.kʰas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.xas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.xas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.xas/

Proper noun

Κάλχᾱς • (Kálkhās) m (genitive Κάλχᾰντος); third declension

1. a male given name: Calchas

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Κάλχᾱς; τοῦ Κάλχᾰντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Κάλχᾱς ho Kálkhās
Genitive	τοῦ Κάλχᾰντος toû Kálkhantos
Dative	τῷ Κάλχᾰντῐ tôi Kálkhanti
Accusative	τὸν Κάλχᾰντᾰ tòn Kálkhanta
Vocative	Κάλχᾰν Kálkhan
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Κάλχας (Kálchas); Κάλχαντας (Kálchantas)
• Latin: Calchās

References

• “Κάλχας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Κάλχας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Κάλχας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004