Chalybes

See also: chalybes

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Χάλυβες (Khálubes, “the Chalybes”), from Χάλυψ (Khálups, “individual among the Chalybes; tempered iron, steel”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʰa.ly.beːs/, [ˈkʰa.lʏ.beːs]

Proper noun

Chalybēs m pl (genitive Chalybum); third declension

  1. 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

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Plural
nominative Chalybēs
genitive Chalybum
dative Chalybibus
accusative Chalybēs
ablative Chalybibus
vocative Chalybēs

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
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