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orichalcum

[ awr-i-kal-kuhm ]

noun

  1. a brass rich in zinc, prepared by the ancients.


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Origin of orichalcum1

1640–50; < Latin < Greek ǰí󲹱Dz literally, mountain-copper, equivalent to orei-, combining form of óDz mountain + 󲹱ó copper
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About the Christian era the terms orichalcum or aurichalcum undoubtedly refer to brass, but whether these terms as used by earlier Greek writers do not refer to bronze only, is a matter of considerable doubt.

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The latter were inscribed on a column of orichalcum which was deposited in the centre of the island, in the temple of the god, where the ten kings originally assembled every fifth year.

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Thus tureigua hobin, which Peter Martyr translates “rex resplendens uti orichalcum,”23 in Arawack means “shining like something red.”

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The Latin orichalcum, for instance, is simply the Greek word ὀρείχαλκος, from ὄρος, mountain, and χαλκός, copper.

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In the first place the island supplied them with such things as are dug out of mines in a solid state, and with such as are melted: and orichalcum, which is now but seldom mentioned, but then was much celebrated, was dug out of the earth in many parts of the island, and was considered as the most honourable of all metals except gold.

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