Ancient Greek

Noun

χελώνη • ‎(khelṓnē) f ‎(genitive χελώνης); first declension

1. a tortoise

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Greek: χελώνα f ‎(chelóna, “tortoise, turtle”)

References

• χελώνη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χελώνη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «χελώνη» 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.
  • penthouse idem, page 603.
  • tortoise idem, page 882.