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Meaning of Chalybes | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B2
[ˈkʰa.ly.beːs]

Definitions

  1. A people in Pontus, living on the Black Sea's southern shore, noted for their mines and their preparation of steel.
    declension-3
  2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of chalybs
    accusative, form-of, nominative, plural, vocative

Examples

“striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat”

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

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

chalybi chalybibus chalybis chalybs chalybum Cham

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