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τέλος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: τέλος τέλεος

Structure: τελο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. completion, accomplishment, fulfillment, perfection, consummation
  2. result, product
  3. end
  4. end of life: death
  5. boundary, border, extremity
  6. supreme power
  7. the highest government office: magistrate
  8. that which is ordered to be done: task, duty
  9. money paid to the government: tax, toll
  10. a person's property, according to which he was classed
  11. thus, generally: rank, class
  12. unit of soldiers: legion, company
  13. initiation (especially into mystery religions)
  14. mystery religion, any religious ceremony

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐναργέα τελέων σάματ’ οὐ λανθάνει, φοινικοεάνων ὁπότ’ οἰχθέντοσ Ὡρᾶν θαλάμου εὐόδμον ἐπάγῃσιν ἐάρ φυτὰ νεκτάρεα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2223)
  • ἄναξ ἀνάκτων, μακάρων μακάρτατε καὶ τελέων τελειότατον κράτοσ, ὄλβιε Ζεῦ, πιθοῦ τε καὶ γένει σῷ ἄλευσον ἀνδρῶν ὕβριν εὖ στυγήσασ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 11)
  • ἄλλοισι δ’ ἐμπίπτων γελᾷ, ψυχὰν Αἴ̈δᾳ τελέων οὐ φράζεται δόξασ ἄνευθεν. (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 1 22:1)
  • οὐδέκοτ’ ἂν μέγα κῶασ ἀνήγαγεν αὐτὸσ Ιἤσων ἐξ Αἰήσ, τελέσασ ἀλγινόεσσαν ὁδόν, ὑβριστῇ Πελίῃ τελέων χαλεπῆρεσ ἀέθλον, οὐδ’ ἂν ἐπ’ Ὠκεανοῦ καλὸν ἵκοντο ῥόον· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , other works52)
  • οὗτοσ δὴ πᾶσ ὄντοσ ἀεὶ λογισμὸσ θεοῦ περὶ τὸν ποτὲ ἐσόμενον θεὸν λογισθεὶσ λεῖον καὶ ὁμαλὸν πανταχῇ τε ἐκ μέσου ἴσον καὶ ὅλον καὶ τέλεον ἐκ τελέων σωμάτων σῶμα ἐποίησεν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 102:1)

Synonyms

  1. completion

  2. result

  3. end

  4. boundary

  5. supreme power

  6. money paid to the government

  7. initiation

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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