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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to hit by throwing”), the same root of βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bé.lem.non/ → /ˈβe.lem.non/ → /ˈve.lem.non/
Noun
βέλεμνον • (bélemnon) n (genitive βελέμνου); second declension
- dart, javelin
- projectile
Inflection
Further reading
- “βέλεμνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βέλεμνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “βέλεμνον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- βέλεμνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βέλεμνον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- βέλεμνον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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