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Latin
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“beam, stake”) (whence also tignum).
Pronunciation
Noun
tēlum n (genitive tēlī); second declension
- dart, spear, missile
- offensive weapon, javelin
27 BCE – 25 BCE,
Titus Livius,
Ab Urbe Condita 29.4:
- Munire urbem, frumentum convehere, tela arma parare.
- To strengthen the defences of the city, to accumulate stores of corn, to prepare a supply of weapons and armour.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “telum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “telum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- telum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- telum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be armed: cum telo esse
- to be out of range: extra teli iactum, coniectum esse
- to come within javelin-range: ad teli coniectum venire (Liv. 2. 31)
- (ambiguous) to be exposed to the assaults of fate: fortunae telis propositum esse
- (ambiguous) to discharge missiles: tela iacere, conicere, mittere
- (ambiguous) to expose oneself to missiles: se obicere telis
- (ambiguous) to discharge showers of missiles: tela ingerere, conicere