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χαλκῆ (chalke)

χαλκῆ is an Ancient Greek form of χάλκεος, meaning “of bronze, brazen”. It is the dative singular feminine adjective.

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.6.89: … οὗτος ἐποίησεν ᾅσματα καὶ γρίφους εἰς ἔπη τρισχίλια. Καὶ τὸ ἐπίγραμμά τινες τὸ ἐπὶ Μίδᾳ τοῦτόν φασι ποιῆσαι· χαλκῆ παρθένος εἰμί, Μίδα δʼ ἐπὶ σήματι κεῖμαι. ἔστʼ ἂν ὕδωρ τε νάῃ καὶ δένδρεα μακρὰ τεθήλῃ,

All forms of χάλκεος (declension table)

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.