χελώνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kʰelu-, *Kʰelew- ,*kʰelōw- (“tortoise”). Related to χέλυς (khélus, “tortoise”). Compare to Proto-Slavic *žьlvъ, whence Old Church Slavonic желꙑ (žely, “turtle”), Polish żółw (“tortoise”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰe.lɔ̌ː.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰeˈlo.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /çeˈlo.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /çeˈlo.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /çeˈlo.ni/
Noun
χελώνη • (khelṓnē) f (genitive χελώνης); first declension
- tortoise
Inflection
First declension of ἡ χελώνη; τῆς χελώνης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ χελώνη hē khelṓnē | τὼ χελώνᾱ tṑ khelṓnā | αἱ χελῶναι hai khelônai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς χελώνης tês khelṓnēs | τοῖν χελώναιν toîn khelṓnain | τῶν χελωνῶν tôn khelōnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ χελώνῃ têi khelṓnēi | τοῖν χελώναιν toîn khelṓnain | ταῖς χελώναις taîs khelṓnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν χελώνην tḕn khelṓnēn | τὼ χελώνᾱ tṑ khelṓnā | τᾱ̀ς χελώνᾱς tā̀s khelṓnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | χελώνη khelṓnē | χελώνᾱ khelṓnā | χελῶναι khelônai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀσπιδοχελώνη (aspidokhelṓnē)
- γερροχελώνη (gerrhokhelṓnē)
- χελωνάριον (khelōnárion)
- χελωνία (khelōnía)
- χελωνιάς (khelōniás)
- χελώνινος (khelṓninos)
- χελώνιον (khelṓnion)
- χελωνίς (khelōnís)
- χελωνοειδής (khelōnoeidḗs)
- χελωνοφάγος (khelōnophágos)
Descendants
- Greek: χελώνα f (chelóna, “tortoise, turtle”)
- → Spanish: quelonio
- → Translingual: Chelonia
- → English: chelonian
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 884.