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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

  • μελισσοτρόφου Σαλαμῖνοσ ὦ βασιλεῦ Τελαμών, νάσου περικύμονοσ οἰκήσασ ἕδραν τᾶσ ἐπικεκλιμένασ ὄχθοισ ἱεροῖσ, ἵν’ ἐλαίασ πρῶτον ἔδειξε κλάδον γλαυκᾶσ Ἀθάνα, οὐράνιον στέφανον λιπαραῖσί <τε> κόσμον Ἀθήναισ, ἔβασ ἔβασ τῷ τοξοφόρῳ συναρι‐ στεύων ἅμ’ Ἀλκμήνασ γόνῳ Ἴλιον Ἴλιον ἐκπέρσων πόλιν ἁμετέραν τὸ πάροιθεν ὅτ’ ἔβασ ἀφ’ Ἑλλάδοσ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 11)
  • ὄνομα μὲν ἡμῖν Τεῦκροσ, ὁ δὲ φύσασ πατὴρ Τελαμών, Σαλαμὶσ δὲ πατρὶσ ἡ θρέψασά με. (Euripides, Helen, episode 5:19)
  • Τελαμὼν ὁ φύσασ. (Euripides, Helen, episode 5:24)
  • ὑπομένειν πληγὰσ ἄκμων κονδύλουσ πλάττειν δὲ Τελαμών τοὺσ καλοὺσ πειρᾶν καπνόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 34 1:2)
  • Φώκου ὄντοσ ἐκ Ψαμάθησ Αἰακῷ καὶ στεργομένου, Τελαμὼν ἦγεν ἐπὶ θήραν καὶ συὸσ ἐπιφανέντοσ κατὰ τοῦ μισουμένου ἐπαφῆκε τὸ δόρυ καὶ ἐφόνευσεν. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 251)

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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