chelysとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• chelus

名詞

chelys

1. (historical) An ancient string instrument, the common lyre of the ancient Greeks, which had a convex back of tortoiseshell or of wood shaped like the shell.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʰɛ.lys]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkɛː.lis]

名詞

chelys f (genitive chelyos or chelyis); third declension

1. a tortoise
2. (by extension) a lyre (made originally out of a tortoise shell)

   Synonyms: testūdō, cithara, lyra, fidēs, chordae

3. (by extension) the constellation Lyra

   Synonym: lyra

語形変化

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).

In poetry.

In Classical Latin, only the nominative, accusative, ablative and vocative singular are attested.

関連する語

• chelydrus

参照

• “chelys” on page 339 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• “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