like copper, copper-coloured
like copper, copper-coloured, Arist. Col. 793a26; μέλιτται Ael. NA 17.35; ῥάβδοι D.S. 17.90, cf. Dsc. 5.99.
II cuneiform
epith. of the cuneiform bone, χ. ὀστέον, ὀστᾶ, PLit.Lond. 167.16 (ii/iii A. D.), Gal. 14.725.
The corpus record
χαλκο-ειδής
chalkoeides
like copper, copper-coloured
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
What it meant — LSJ
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.