Latin

Noun

tēlum n ‎(genitive tēlī); second declension

1. dart, spear, missile
2. weapon, javelin
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 29.4

     munire urbem, frumentum convehere, tela arma parare

     to strengthen the defences of the city, to accumulate stores of corn, to prepare a supply of weapons and armour

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• telum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• telum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• TELUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “telum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be armed: cum telo esse
    
  • to be out of range: extra teli iactum, coniectum esse
    
  • to come within javelin-range: ad teli coniectum venire (Liv. 2. 31)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be exposed to the assaults of fate: fortunae telis propositum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to discharge missiles: tela iacere, conicere, mittere
    
  • (ambiguous) to expose oneself to missiles: se obicere telis
    
  • (ambiguous) to discharge showers of missiles: tela ingerere, conicere
    

1. ↑ Ancient Indo-European Dialects: Proceedings