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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/
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
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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