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chalybs

chalybs

Latin

Noun

chalybs m ‎(genitive chalybis); third declension

iron, steel
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 8.445
  Fluit aes riuis aurique metallum, uulnificusque chalybs uasta fornace liquescit.
  Bronze and golden ore flowed in streams, and steel, that deals wounds, melted in a vast furnace.
weapons or implements made from iron or steel

Declension

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	chalybs	chalybēs
genitive	chalybis	chalybum
dative	chalybī	chalybibus
accusative	chalybem	chalybēs
ablative	chalybe	chalybibus
vocative	chalybs	chalybēs

Synonyms

(iron, tool made of iron, weapon made of iron): ferrum

Related terms

chalybēius
Chalybes
chalybīnus

References

chalybs in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
chalybs in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “chalybs”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
chalybs in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers