βέλεμνον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- δέλεμνον (délemnon)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to hit by throwing”), the same root of βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bé.lem.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbe.lem.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβe.lem.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈve.lem.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈve.lem.non/
Noun
βέλεμνον • (bélemnon) n (genitive βελέμνου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ βέλεμνον tò bélemnon |
τὼ βελέμνω tṑ belémnō |
τᾰ̀ βέλεμνᾰ tằ bélemnă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ βελέμνου toû belémnou |
τοῖν βελέμνοιν toîn belémnoin |
τῶν βελέμνων tôn belémnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ βελέμνῳ tōî belémnōi |
τοῖν βελέμνοιν toîn belémnoin |
τοῖς βελέμνοις toîs belémnois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ βέλεμνον tò bélemnon |
τὼ βελέμνω tṑ belémnō |
τᾰ̀ βέλεμνᾰ tằ bélemnă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βέλεμνον bélemnon |
βελέμνω belémnō |
βέλεμνᾰ bélemnă | ||||||||||
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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 (2006–2025)
- 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