Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀτελεύτητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀτελεύτητος ἀτελεύτητη ἀτελεύτητον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + τελευτητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: teleuta/w

Sense

  1. not brought to an end or issue, unaccomplished
  2. impracticable

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "ἀλλὰ τἄλλα , μὲν ἴσωσ ἄστρα καὶ τὸν ὅλον οὐρανὸν εἴσ τινα φύσιν καθαρὰν καὶ εἰλικρινῆ καὶ τῆσ κατὰ πάθοσ ἀπηλλαγμένην μεταβολῆσ τιθεμένοισ ὑμῖν καὶ κύκλον ἄγουσιν ἀιδίου καὶ ἀτελευτήτου περιφορᾶσ οὐκ ἄν τισ ἔν γε τῷ νῦν διαμάχοιτο, καίτοι μυρίων οὐσῶν ἀποριῶν. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 16 2:1)
  • τὸ δ’ ἄπειρον ἢ τὸ ἀδύνατον διελθεῖν τῷ μὴ πεφυκέναι διιέναι, καθάπερ ἡ φωνὴ ἀόρατοσ, ἢ τὸ διέξοδον ἔχον ἀτελεύτητον, ἢ ὃ μόλισ, ἢ ὃ πεφυκὸσ ἔχειν μὴ ἔχει διέξοδον ἢ πέρασ· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 11 151:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐμὸν παλινάγρετον οὐδ’ ἀπατηλὸν οὐδ’ ἀτελεύτητον ὅ τί κεν κεφαλῇ κατανεύσω. (Homer, Iliad, Book 1 53:8)
  • σέο δ’ ὀστέα πύσει ἄρουρα κειμένου ἐν Τροίῃ ἀτελευτήτῳ ἐπὶ ἔργῳ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 4 15:15)

Synonyms

  1. not brought to an end or issue

  2. impracticable

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

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