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telis

telis is a Latin form of telum, meaning “weapon, missile, spear, dart”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun.

It can also be a form of tela, “web; loom; warp (of a fabric)”.

Found 318 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.8.4: … at, non numquam interdiu, saepius noctu si perrumpere possent conati, operis munitione et militum concursu et telis repulsi, hoc conatu destiterunt.

All forms of telum (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.