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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear”), like τελαμών (telamṓn, “strap, belt”) and τάλαντον (tálanton, “balance, scale”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tól.ma/ → /ˈtol.ma/ → /ˈtol.ma/
Noun
τόλμᾰ • (tólma) f (genitive τόλμης); first declension
- courage, hardihood
- Synonym: θάρσος (thársos)
- recklessness, overboldness
- bold or daring act
Inflection
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References
- “τόλμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τόλμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τόλμα 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