COMPOUND: τηλύγετος, -η, -ον
CATEGORIZATION: A [Adv+V+Suf]
MEANING: ‘a darling son, petted child’, ‘son of one’s old age, born far away’
ETYMOLOGY: τῆλε ‘at a distance, far off’ + verbal root γε- ? (γίγνομαι) ‘to be born’ + suf. -τος (Cf. Chantraine)
OCCURRENCE: Il. V, 153; IX, 144, 284, 482; XIII, 470; Od. IV, 11; XVI, 19
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: nom. m. du., nom. m. sg., acc. m. sg.
HEADEDNESS: exocentric
CLASSIFICATION: determinative – karmadhāraya
NOTES: old Ep. epith. of children, of uncertain origin and sense