Latin

Proper noun

Chalybes 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

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

• chalybēius
• chalybs

References

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

Latin

Noun

chalybēs

1. nominative plural of chalybs
2. accusative plural of chalybs
3. vocative plural of chalybs