τελαμών

See also: Τελαμών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear”) + -μων (-mōn), as its original meaning was "bearer".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /te.la.mɔ̌ːn/ → /te.laˈmon/ → /te.laˈmon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /te.la.mɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /te.laˈmon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /te.laˈmon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /te.laˈmon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /te.laˈmon/

Noun

τελᾰμών • (telamṓn) m (genitive τελᾰμῶνος); third declension

1. broad strap or band for bearing or supporting anything
2. leathern strap or belt
3. linen bandage for wounds
4. (architecture) telamon, colossal figure used as bearing-pillars

Declension

Third declension of ὁ τελᾰμών; τοῦ τελᾰμῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Τελᾰμών (Telamṓn)
• τελᾰμωνῐ́δῐον (telamōnídion)
• τελᾰμωνῐ́ζω (telamōnízō)
• τελᾰμωνῐ́ᾱ (telamōníā)

 

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