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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

  • τελαμῶσιν ἕλκη τὰ μὲν ἐγώ σ’ ἰάσομαι, τλήμων ἰατρόσ, ὄνομ’ ἔχουσα, τἄργα δ’ οὔ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric 1:1)
  • ὅσοισ μὲν δὴ καθαγίσασι τὰ ἱερεῖα ἐσ τὸ ἄδυτον ἀποστεῖλαι πεποιημένουσ ἀρχήν, καθελίξαι δεῖ σφᾶσ τὰ ἱερεῖα λίνου τελαμῶσιν ἢ βύσσου· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 32 25:4)
  • ἀσπίδιον δ’ αὐτοὺσ δίπουν ἔχειν τὴν διάμετρον, κοῖλον εἰσ τὸ πρόσθεν, τελαμῶσιν ἐξηρτημένον· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 3 12:2)

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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