hepatizon
English
Etymology
From the Latin hēpatizon, from the Ancient Greek ἡπᾰτῐ́ζον (hēpatízon), from ἡπᾰτῐ́ζων (hēpatízōn, “liver-coloured”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
hepatizon (uncountable)
- A valuable metal alloy in antiquity, thought to have been an alloy of copper with gold and silver, mixed and treated to produce a material with a dark purplish patina.
- chloasma
Translations
valuable metal alloy in antiquity
References
- ^ The Practitioner's Medical Dictionary, Third Edition, by George Milbry Gould and Richard John Ernst Scott, 1919, page 421
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ἡπᾰτῐ́ζον (hēpatízon), neuter of ἡπᾰτῐ́ζων (hēpatízōn, “liver-coloured”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /heː.paˈtiz.zon/, [heːpäˈt̪ɪz̪d̪͡z̪ɔn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.paˈtid.d͡zon/, [epäˈt̪id̪ː͡z̪on]
Noun
hēpatizon n sg (genitive hēpatizontis); third declension
- liver-coloured Corinthian bronze
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)
Declension
- This word is attested only in the nominative singular; the remaining declension is hypothetical.
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | hēpatizon |
Genitive | hēpatizontis |
Dative | hēpatizontī |
Accusative | hēpatizon |
Ablative | hēpatizonte |
Vocative | hēpatizon |
Descendants
- English: hepatizon
References
- “hēpătīzon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- hēpătizŏn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 741/1.
- “hēpatizon” on page 790/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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