χάλιξ

Ancient Greek

Unknown, perhaps Pre-Greek. Probably cognate, ancestor, or descendant of Latin calx (“limestone, chalk”).^[1]^[2]

χᾰ́λῐξ • (khắlĭx) m or f (genitive χᾰ́λῐκος); third declension

small stone, pebble
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Fragments 213
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Gout 226
gravel, rubble (used in building and concrete making)
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.93
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cimon 13.7
- 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 5.4.6
- 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 839

Third declension of ὁ / ἡ χᾰ́λῐξ; τοῦ / τῆς χᾰ́λῐκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ / ἡ χᾰ́λῐξ ho / hē khắlĭx	τὼ χᾰ́λῐκε tṑ khắlĭke	οἱ / αἱ χᾰ́λῐκες hoi / hai khắlĭkes
Genitive	τοῦ / τῆς χᾰ́λῐκος toû / tês khắlĭkos	τοῖν χᾰλῐ́κοιν toîn khălĭ́koin	τῶν χᾰλῐ́κων tôn khălĭ́kōn
Dative	τῷ / τῇ χᾰ́λῐκῐ tōî / tēî khắlĭkĭ	τοῖν χᾰλῐ́κοιν toîn khălĭ́koin	τοῖς / ταῖς χᾰ́λῐξῐ / χᾰ́λῐξῐν toîs / taîs khắlĭxĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν / τὴν χᾰ́λῐκᾰ tòn / tḕn khắlĭkă	τὼ χᾰ́λῐκε tṑ khắlĭke	τοὺς / τᾱ̀ς χᾰ́λῐκᾰς toùs / tā̀s khắlĭkăs
Vocative	χᾰ́λῐξ khắlĭx	χᾰ́λῐκε khắlĭke	χᾰ́λῐκες khắlĭkes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “χάλιξ, -ικος [m., f.]”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1610
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “calx, -cis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 86