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τελαμών

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τελαμών τελαμῶνος

Structure: τελαμων (Stem)

Etym.: from Root TLA, Tla/w, whence also the hero Telamon took his name, cf. A)/tlas

Sense

  1. a broad strap for bearing
  2. a leathern strap or belt
  3. a broad linen bandage

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καί ῥ’ αἱ μὲν καλὰσ στεφάνασ ἔχον, οἱ δὲ μαχαίρασ εἶχον χρυσείασ ἐξ ἀργυρέων τελαμώνων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 72 15:2)
  • καί ῥ’ αἳ μὲν καλὰσ στεφάνασ ἔχον, οἳ δὲ μαχαίρασ εἶχον χρυσείασ ἐξ ἀργυρέων τελαμώνων. (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 57:4)

Synonyms

  1. a broad strap for bearing

  2. a leathern strap or belt

  3. a broad linen bandage

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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