Telchines

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τελχῖνες (Telkhînes). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɛɫˈkʰiː.nɛs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [telˈkiː.nes] The e in the final syllable of the nominative plural is short in Greek and must be short to scan in the places where it occurs in hexameter in Statius' works. === Proper noun === Telchīnes m pl (genitive Telchīnum); third declension the Telchines, a fabled family of priests in Rhodes ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), plural only. === References === “Telchines”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press === Further reading === “Τελχίν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Τελχίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press Telchines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Telchis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia