βέλεμνον
Ancient Greek
    
    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/
 
Inflection
    
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ βέλεμνον tò bélemnon  | 
τὼ βελέμνω tṑ belémnō  | 
τᾰ̀ βέλεμνᾰ tà bélemna  | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ βελέμνου toû belémnou  | 
τοῖν βελέμνοιν toîn belémnoin  | 
τῶν βελέμνων tôn belémnōn  | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ βελέμνῳ tôi belémnōi  | 
τοῖν βελέμνοιν toîn belémnoin  | 
τοῖς βελέμνοις toîs belémnois  | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ βέλεμνον tò bélemnon  | 
τὼ βελέμνω tṑ belémnō  | 
τᾰ̀ βέλεμνᾰ tà bélemna  | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βέλεμνον bélemnon  | 
βελέμνω belémnō  | 
βέλεμνᾰ bélemna  | ||||||||||
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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 (2006–2024)
 - 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
 
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