Chalybes

See also: chalybes

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Χάλυβες (Khálubes, “the Chalybes”), from Χάλυψ (Khálups, “individual among the Chalybes; tempered iron, steel”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰa.ly.beːs/, [ˈkʰälʲʏbeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.li.bes/, [ˈkäːlibes]

Proper noun

Chalybēs m pl (genitive Chalybum); third declension

1. A people in Pontus, living on the Black Sea's southern shore, noted for their mines and their preparation of steel.
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 8.420:

     striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat

     Chalybian ores hiss in the caverns, and from the furnace mouths puff the hot-panting fires

Declension

Third-declension noun, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Chalybēs
Genitive	Chalybum
Dative	Chalybibus
Accusative	Chalybēs
Ablative	Chalybibus
Vocative	Chalybēs

Related terms

• chalybēius
• chalybs

References

• “Chalybes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Chalybes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.