The corpus record

καλχαίνω

kalchaino

make purple

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Where it lives

Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k

What it meant

καλχαίνω · kalchainō — LSJ

make purple, to be purple

make purple:—Pass., to be purple, Nic. Th. 641.

II make dark and troublous, ponder deeply, long, desire

metaph. (cf. πορφύρω), make dark and troublous like a stormy sea, ponder deeply, κ. ἔπος S. Ant. 20; ἀμφὶ τέκνοις E. Heracl. 40: c. inf., long, desire, Lyc. 1457; cf. sq. [Κάλχας]

In the wild

καλχαίνουςʼ · kalchainousʼ Sophocles, Antigone 20

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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