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ἀτέλεστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀτέλεστος

Structure: ἀτελεστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tele/w

Sense

  1. without end or issue, to no purpose, without effect, unaccomplished
  2. uninitiated in

Examples

  • τοῖσ δ’ ἀτελέστοισ τῶν τοῦδε πόνων μήτε συνείην χωρὶσ τ’ ἀγρίων ναίοιμι τρόπων, τὸ δ’ ἐρᾶν προλέγω τοῖσι νέοισιν μή ποτε φεύγειν, χρῆσθαι δ’ ὀρθῶσ ὅταν ἔλθῃ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 115)

Synonyms

  1. without end or issue

  2. uninitiated in

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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