orichalcum

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɒɹɪˈkælkəm/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A valuable yellow metal known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans; now sometimes interpreted as referring to a natural alloy of gold and copper, and sometimes treated as a mythical substance. uncountable
    — Many walls were coated with metals – with brass, tin and a red ^([sic]) metal, unknown to us, called orichalcum.

词形变化

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词源

Learned borrowing from Latin orichalcum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀρείχαλκος (oreíkhalkos), from dative singular of ὄρος (óros, “mountain”) + χαλκός (khalkós, “copper”).
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