telum

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“beam, stake”) (whence tignum).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈteː.lum/, [ˈteː.ɫũ]

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

Second declension.

• 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)
• telum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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