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τελεσφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τελεσφόρος τελεσφόρον

Structure: τελεσφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/los, fe/rw

Sense

  1. bringing to an end, completing its round, complete, tending to accomplishment, accomplishment, of fulfilment
  2. accomplishing one's purpose
  3. bringing fruit to perfection, having the ordering

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ εἶναι τοῦτο ἐργῶδεσ, τοῦτο μὲν καὶ δὴ παριέναι μοι, ἀντὶ δὲ τούτου τὸν δακτύλιον ὃν ἐφόρουν περιελόμενον ἀναθεῖναι τῷ Τελεσφόρῳ, τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ ποιεῖν ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ τὸν δάκτυλον αὐτὸν προείμην, ἐπιγράψαι δὲ εἰσ τὴν σφενδόνην τοῦ δακτυλίου, Κρόνου παῖ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 7:4)
  • οἶμαι γὰρ δόξαι τὸν θεὸν αὐτῷ λέγειν ἅμα τῷ Τελεσφόρῳ γενόμενον, βλέποντα εἰσ ἐμὲ, ὡσ ἄρα τούτου τά τε ὀστᾶ δέοι ἐξελεῖν καὶ νεῦρα ἐνθεῖναι, τὰ γὰρ ὄντα ἀπειρηκέναι· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 4:17)

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

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