telamon

¹

[tel-uh-muhn, -mon]

noun

Architecture.

plural

telamones 

1. atlas.

Telamon

²

[tel-uh-muhn, -mon]

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. an Argonaut and friend of Hercules, and the father of Ajax and Teucer.

Telamon

¹

/ -ˌmɒn, ˈtɛləmən /

noun

1. Greek myth a king of Salamis; brother of Peleus and father of Teucer and Ajax

telamon

²

/ ˈtɛləmən /

noun

1. Also called: atlas. a column in the form of a male figure, used to support an entablature Compare caryatid

Word History and Origins

Origin of telamon¹

1700–10; < Latin telamōn < Greek telamṓn bearer, support; identified with Telamon

Word History and Origins

Origin of telamon¹

C18: via Latin from Greek, from tlēnai to bear

Example Sentences

Again, figures in the form of men supporting mutules or coronae, we term "telamones"—the reasons why or wherefore they are so called are not found in any story—but the Greeks name them ἁτλανες.

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But the Algonquins and Iroquois wore such breastplates as they could manufacture, though they also used shields of great size, suspended, in Mycenaean fashion, from the neck and shoulder by a telamon or belt.

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