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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

  • καὶ ἐπορεύθη ὁ προφήτησ καὶ ἔστη τῷ βασιλεῖ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ τῆσ ὁδοῦ καὶ κατεδήσατο ἐν τελαμῶνι τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 21:38)
  • προσβαλὼυ δὲ Τελαμῶνι τῆσ Τυρρηνίασ καὶ ἀποβὰσ ἐκήρυττε δούλοισ ἐλευθερίαν· (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 41 2:2)
  • Πείσανδροσ δέ φησιν Ἡρακλέα Τελαμῶνι τῆσ ἐπὶ Ἴλιον στρατείασ ἀριστεῖον ἄλεισον δοῦναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 24 2:2)
  • καὶ ποῖον ὄμμα πατρὶ δηλώσω φανεὶσ Τελαμῶνι; (Sophocles, Ajax, episode17)
  • ἀλλ’, ἄνδρεσ ἀσπιστῆρεσ, ἐνάλιοσ λεώσ, ὑμῖν τε κοινὴν τήνδ’ ἐπισκήπτω χάριν, κείνῳ τ’ ἐμὴν ἀγγείλατ’ ἐντολήν, ὅπωσ τὸν παῖδα τόνδε πρὸσ δόμουσ ἐμοὺσ ἄγων Τελαμῶνι δείξει μητρί τ’, Ἐριβοίᾳ λέγω, ὥσ σφιν γένηται γηροβοσκὸσ εἰσαεί, μέχρισ οὗ μυχοὺσ κίχωσι τοῦ κάτω θεοῦ, καὶ τἀμὰ τεύχη μήτ’ ἀγωνάρχαι τινὲσ θήσουσ’ Ἀχαιοῖσ μήθ’ ὁ λυμεὼν ἐμόσ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 3:12)

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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