χαλκᾶ (chalka)

χαλκᾶ is an Ancient Greek form of χαλκός, meaning “bronze”.

It can also be a form of χάλκεος, “of bronze, brazen”. It is the nominative dual feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of χαλκεύς, “coppersmith”.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Numa 13.4: … ἐν τῷ Μαρτίῳ μηνί, φοινικοῦς μὲν ἐνδεδυμένοι χιτωνίσκους, μίτραις δὲ χαλκαῖς ἐπεζωσμένοι πλατείαις καὶ κράνη χαλκᾶ φοροῦντες, ἐγχειριδίοις δὲ μικροῖς τὰ ὅπλα κρούοντες.

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.