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χαλκ-ισμός

chalkismos · ὁ

game played by spinning a copper coin

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What it meant — LSJ

game played by spinning a copper coin

game played by spinning a copper coin, which was stopped by the finger before it fell, Poll. 9.118, Eust. 986.41, 1409.18.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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