Telemachos

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Τηλέμαχος (Tēlémakhos).

Proper noun

Telemachos

  1. Alternative form of Telemachus.
    • 1928 December 26, “THE KING AND THE PRINCES.”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 November 2025:
      The sight of the faces of his children must have been to King GEORGE as was to Odysseus that of Prince Telemachos, hurrying home from the wide land of Lacedaemon in his black ship to the Ithacan palace described by the faithful servant Eumaeus as "a sweet light in the dark."
    • 2002, Daniel Mersey, “Achilles: Hero of The Iliad”, in Legendary Warriors: Great Heroes in Myth and Reality, London: Brassey’s, →ISBN, page 59:
      He [Odysseus] was the king of Ithake', the husband of Penelope and the father of Telemachos.
    • 2006, Andrew Dalby, “Introduction”, in Rediscovering Homer, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page xx:
      Telemachos, Odysseus’s only son, was a baby when Odysseus left home to fight with the other Greeks at Troy.
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