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Yes. The word chlamys is a Scrabble US word. The word chlamys is worth 17 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (1 found)

CHLAMYS,

6-letter words (1 found)

CHASMY,

5-letter words (20 found)

ACYLS,AMYLS,CALMS,CALMY,CHALS,CHAMS,CHASM,CHAYS,CLAMS,CLASH,CLAYS,CYMAS,HALMS,HYLAS,LYAMS,MACHS,MASHY,SCALY,SHALM,SHALY,

4-letter words (44 found)

ACHY,ACYL,ALMS,AMYL,ASHY,CALM,CALS,CAMS,CASH,CAYS,CHAL,CHAM,CHAS,CHAY,CLAM,CLAY,CYMA,HALM,HAMS,HAYS,HYLA,LACS,LACY,LAHS,LAMS,LASH,LAYS,LYAM,LYCH,LYMS,MACH,MACS,MALS,MASH,MAYS,MYAL,MYCS,SCAM,SHAM,SHAY,SLAM,SLAY,YAHS,YAMS,

3-letter words (35 found)

ACH,AHS,ALS,ASH,AYS,CAL,CAM,CAY,CHA,CLY,HAM,HAS,HAY,LAC,LAH,LAM,LAS,LAY,LYM,MAC,MAL,MAS,MAY,MYC,SAC,SAL,SAM,SAY,SHA,SHY,SLY,SMA,YAH,YAM,YAS,

2-letter words (13 found)

AH,AL,AM,AS,AY,CH,HA,HM,LA,MA,MY,SH,YA,

You can make 114 words from chlamys according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of chlamys

chlamys

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χλᾰμῠ́ς (khlamús).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈklæmɪs/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈklamɪs/

Noun

chlamys (plural chlamyses or chlamydes)

  1. (historical) A short poncho-like cloak caught up on the shoulder, worn by hunters, soldiers, and horsemen in Ancient Greece.

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Further reading

  • chlamys on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Alternative forms

  • clamis, clamys, chlamis, chlamyda

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek χλᾰμῠ́ς (khlamús).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʰla.mys/, [ˈkʰɫ̪ämʏs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkla.mis/, [ˈkläːmis]

Noun

chlamys f (genitive chlamydos or chlamydis); third declension

  1. chlamys (a broad, woollen upper garment worn in Greece, sometimes purple, and inwrought with gold, worn especially by distinguished military characters, a Grecian military cloak, a state mantle; hence also, the cloak of Pallas; and sometimes also worn by persons not engaged in war, by, e.g., Mercury, Dido, Agrippina, children, actors, the chorus in tragedy, etc.)

Declension

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

1In poetry.

Synonyms

  • (chlamys: military cloak): palūdāmentum (the Roman approximate equivalent)

Descendants

  • → English: chlamys
  • → Italian: clamide
  • → Spanish: clámide

References

  • “chlămys”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “chlamys”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • chlamys in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • chlămy̆s in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 301/2.
  • “chlamys”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “chlamys”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • “chlamys” on page 310/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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