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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

  • ποῖα δὲ δένδρα οὐκ ὀλιγωρηθέντα μὲν στρεβλὰ φύεται καὶ ἄκαρπα καθίσταται, τυχόντα δ’ ὀρθῆσ παιδαγωγίασ ἔγκαρπα γίγνεται καὶ τελεσφόρα; (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 4 12:2)
  • ἃ γὰρ προσεῖδον νυκτὶ τῇδε φάσματα δισσῶν ὀνείρων, ταῦτά μοι, Λύκει’ ἄναξ, εἰ μὲν πέφηνεν ἐσθλά, δὸσ τελεσφόρα, εἰ δ’ ἐχθρά, τοῖσ ἐχθροῖσιν ἔμπαλιν μέθεσ· (Sophocles, episode 4:6)
  • εἰσ τὸν Λουκᾶν ἀθανάτου βιότοιο τελεσφόρα ἔργματα Χριστοῦ πυκτίου ἐν λαγόνεσσι σαφῶσ ἐνέπασσέ γε Λουκᾶσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 1, chapter 841)

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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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