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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

  • τὼ δ’ ἐσ φόβον πεσόντε, μὴ τελεσφόρουσ εὐχὰσ θεοὶ κραίνωσιν οἰκούντων ὁμοῦ, ξυμβάντ’ ἔταξαν τὸν νεώτερον πάροσ φεύγειν ἑκόντα τήνδε Πολυνείκη χθόνα, Ἐτεοκλέα δὲ σκῆπτρ’ ἔχειν μένοντα γῆσ, ἐνιαυτὸν ἀλλάσσοντε. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 6:1)
  • εὔχου τὰ λοιπά, τοῖσ θεοῖσ τελεσφόρουσ εὐχὰσ ἐπαγγέλλουσα, τυγχάνειν καλῶσ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 10:4)
  • οὔτε Δία γενέθλιον οὔτε Ἥραν γαμήλιον οὔτε Μοίρασ τελεσφόρουσ ἢ λοχίαν Ἄρτεμιν ἢ μητέρα Ῥέαν, οὐδὲ τὰσ προεστώσασ ἀνθρωπίνησ γενέσεωσ Εἰλειθυίασ οὐδὲ Ἀφροδίτην ἐπώνυμον τῆσ κατὰ φύσιν πρὸσ τὸ θῆλυ τοῦ ἄρρενοσ συνόδου τε καὶ ὁμιλίασ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 163:1)

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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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