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telorum

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

Found 123 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.10.3: per eorum corpora reliquos audacissime transire conantes multitudine telorum reppulerunt primosque, qui transierant, equitatu circumventos interfecerunt.

Vergil, Aeneid 9.509: non tam spissa viris. Telorum effundere contra

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.25.1: TELORUM, iaculorum gladiorumque vocabula quae in historiis veteribus scripta sunt, item navigiorum genera et nomina, libitum forte nobis est sedentibus in reda conquirere, ne quid malarum ineptiarum vacantem stupentemque animum occuparet.

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.