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

(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

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 Kálkhăntos
Dative	τῷ Κάλχᾰντῐ tōî Kálkhăntĭ
Accusative	τὸν Κάλχᾰντᾰ tòn Kálkhăntă
Vocative	Κάλχᾰν Kálkhăn
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