chelys

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰe.lys/, [ˈkʰɛlʲʏs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈke.lis/, [ˈkɛːlis]

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 noun (Greek-type, normal variant).

¹In poetry.

• 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