τελαμών
See also: Τελαμών
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear”) + -μων (-mōn), as its original meaning was "bearer".
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /te.la.mɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /te.laˈmon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /te.laˈmon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /te.laˈmon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /te.laˈmon/
Noun
τελᾰμών • (telamṓn) m (genitive τελᾰμῶνος); third declension
- broad strap or band for bearing or supporting anything
- leathern strap or belt
- linen bandage for wounds
- (architecture) telamon, colossal figure used as bearing-pillars
Declension
Third declension of ὁ τελᾰμών; τοῦ τελᾰμῶνος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τελᾰμών ho telamṓn | τὼ τελᾰμῶνε tṑ telamône | οἱ τελᾰμῶνες hoi telamônes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τελᾰμῶνος toû telamônos | τοῖν τελᾰμώνοιν toîn telamṓnoin | τῶν τελᾰμώνων tôn telamṓnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τελᾰμῶνῐ tôi telamôni | τοῖν τελᾰμώνοιν toîn telamṓnoin | τοῖς τελᾰμῶσῐ / τελᾰμῶσῐν toîs telamôsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τελᾰμῶνᾰ tòn telamôna | τὼ τελᾰμῶνε tṑ telamône | τοὺς τελᾰμῶνᾰς toùs telamônas | ||||||||||
Vocative | τελᾰμών telamṓn | τελᾰμῶνε telamône | τελᾰμῶνες telamônes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Τελᾰμών (Telamṓn)
- τελᾰμωνῐ́ᾱ (telamōníā)
- τελᾰμωνῐ́δῐον (telamōnídion)
- τελᾰμωνῐ́ζω (telamōnízō)
Descendants
- → Latin: telamōn
Further reading
- “τελαμών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τελαμών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τελαμών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN