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ἡμιτελής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμιτελής ἡμιτελές

Structure: ἡμιτελη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: te/los

Sense

  1. half-finished, but half complete

Examples

  • πρὸσ δὴ τοιαύτασ ὑπολήψεισ καὶ τερατείασ ἀνθρώπων ἡμιτελῶν περὶ λόγουσ, οἳ τὴν εὐγενῆ κατασκευὴν οὐκ ἴσασιν ἥ τίσ ποτ’ ἐστὶν οὐδὲ δύνανται, πᾶσαν εἰρωνείαν ἀφείσ, ὡσ πέφυκα, διαλέξομαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 23 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. half-finished

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

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