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χέλῡς, χέλῠς • ‎(khélūs, khélus) f ‎(genitive χέλῠος); third declension

tortoise
- Homeric Hymn to Hermes 33
lyre
- Homeric Hymn to Hermes 25
- Homeric Hymn to Hermes 153
- 630 BCE – 570 BCE, Sappho, Collected Works 45
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 314
- 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 448
Lyra
- 315 BCE – 240 BCE, Aratus, Phaenomena 268
arched breast, chest
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Anat. 1
- 458 BCE, Euripides, Electra 837

Third declension of χέλῠς, χέλῠος

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χέλῠς	τὼ χέλῠε	αἱ χέλῠες
Genitive	τῆς χέλῠος	τοῖν χελῠ́οιν	τῶν χελῠ́ων
Dative	τῇ χέλῠϊ	τοῖν χελῠ́οιν	ταῖς χέλῠσῐ(ν)
Accusative	τὴν χέλῠν	τὼ χέλῠε	τὰς χέλῡς
Vocative	χέλῠ	χέλῠε	χέλῠες

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Third declension of χέλῡς, χέλῠος (Homeric)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χέλῡς	τὼ χέλῠε	αἱ χέλῠες
Genitive	τῆς χέλῠος	τοῖν χέλῠ́οιῐν	τῶν χέλῠ́ων
Dative	τῇ χέλῠϊ	τοῖν χέλῠ́οιῐν	ταῖς χέλῠ́εσσῐ(ν) / χέλῠσσῐ(ν) / χέλῡσῐ(ν)
Accusative	τὴν χέλῡν	τὼ χέλῠε	τὰς χέλῡς / χέλῠᾰς
Vocative	χέλῡ	χέλῠε	χέλῠες

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χέλυς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
χέλυς in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
χέλυς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
«χέλυς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- lyre idem, page 506.

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰelu-, *gʰelew- ,*gʰelōw- ‎(“tortoise”). Related to χελώνη ‎(khelṓnē, “tortoise”). Compare to Proto-Slavic *žьlvъ, whence Old Church Slavonic желу ‎(žely, “turtle”), Polish żółw ‎(“tortoise”).