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Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek χέλῡς (khélūs, “tortoise”).
Pronunciation
Noun
chelys f (genitive *chelyos); third declension
- a tortoise
- a tortoise shell, a lyre or harp made of a tortoise shell
Declension
Forms attested only in the nominative, accusative, and vocative singular.
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).
1In poetry.
Synonyms
References
- “chelys”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “chelys”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- chelys in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “chelys”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “chelys”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin