with wings of metallic hue
with wings of metallic hue, ὄρνις PSI 6.569.9 (iii B. C.); μυῖα Philum. Ven. 25.1.
The corpus record
χαλκό-πτερος
chalkopteros
with wings of metallic hue
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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.