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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Χάλυβες (Khálubes, “the Chalybes”), from Χάλυψ (Khálups, “individual among the Chalybes; tempered iron, steel”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Chalybēs m pl (genitive Chalybum); third declension
- A people in Pontus, living on the Black Sea's southern shore, noted for their mines and their preparation of steel.
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 8.420:
- striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat
- Chalybian ores hiss in the caverns, and from the furnace mouths puff the hot-panting fires
Declension
Third-declension noun, plural only.
References
- “Chalybes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Chalybes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.