hepatizon

From the Latin hēpatizon, from the Ancient Greek ἡπᾰτῐ́ζον (hēpatízon), from ἡπᾰτῐ́ζων (hēpatízōn, “liver-coloured”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌhɛpəˈtaɪ̯zɒn/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌhɛpəˈtaɪ̯zɑn/[1]

hepatizon (uncountable)

1. 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.
2. chloasma

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From the Ancient Greek ἡπᾰτῐ́ζον (hēpatízon), neuter of ἡπᾰτῐ́ζων (hēpatízōn, “liver-coloured”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /heː.paˈtiz.zon/, [heːpäˈt̪ɪz̪d̪͡z̪ɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.paˈtid.d͡zon/, [epäˈt̪id̪ː͡z̪on]

hēpatizon n sg (genitive hēpatizontis); third declension

1. liver-coloured Corinthian bronze

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• This word is attested only in the nominative singular; the remaining declension is hypothetical.

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), singular only.

• English: hepatizon

• “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)