chelys

From the Ancient Greek χέλῡς (khélūs, “tortoise”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰe.lys/, [ˈkʰɛ.lʏs]

chelys f (genitive *chelyos); third declension

1. a tortoise
2. a tortoise shell, a lyre or harp made of a tortoise shell

Forms attested only in the nominative, accusative, and vocative singular. Third declension, Greek type.

• lyra

• chelȳdrus

• 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