artemon

artemon (plural artemons)

1. (nautical) A square foresail, on a Roman oared ship
   • 1980: A small square sail, an artemon, was slung under the bow to act as a headsail. — Richard W. Unger, The Ship in the Medieval Economy 600-1600, page 34.

• Martone, Morante, materno-, montera, tone arm, tonearm

From Ancient Greek ἀρτέμων (artémōn)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.te.moːn/, [ˈar.tɛ.moːn]

artemōn m (genitive artemōnis); third declension

1. (nautical) topsail, foresail, bysail
   • Dig. 50, 16, 242, pr. Iavolenus libro secundo ex posterioribus Labeonis

     Malum navis esse partem, artemonem autem non esse Labeo ait, quia pleraeque naves sine malo inutiles essent, ideoque pars navis habetur: artemo autem magis adiectamento quam pars navis est.

     A mast is a part of the ship but not a foresail, says Labeo, because most ships are useless without mast, and therefore it is deemed as a part of the ship: whereas a foresail is more of an add-on than a part of the ship.

   • Vulg. Actus Apostolorum 27, 40

     Et cum anchoras sustulissent, committebant se mari, simul laxantes juncturas gubernaculorum: et levato artemone secundum aurae flatum, tendebant ad littus.

     And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the by-sail to the wind, and made toward shore.

2. main block in a pulley system

Third declension.

• Catalan: artimó
• French: artimon
• Italian: artimone
• Norman: artimon
• Portuguese: artimão
• Spanish: artemón
• → English: artemon

• artemon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• artemon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• artemon in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray