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.
Origin
, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀρείχαλκος, from dative singular of ὄρος + χαλκός.
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