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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἐγχέλιοι (Enkhélioi).
Proper noun
Encheleae m pl (genitive Encheleārum); first declension
- (historical) Enchelei, an Illyrian tribe
c. 77 CE – 79 CE,
Pliny the Elder,
Naturalis Historia 3.139:
- Pars eius fuere Mentores, Himani, Encheleae, Bulini et quos Callimachus Peucetios appellat, nunc totum uno nomine Illyricum vocatur generatim.
- Part of it once were the Montores, Himani, Encheleae, Bulini and those who Callimachus calls Peucetii, now all of Illyricum is called generally under a single name.
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
References
- Encheliae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Encheliae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press