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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

  • καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τέλει τῶν δύο μηνῶν καὶ ἐπέστρεψε πρὸσ τὸν πατέρα αὐτῆσ, καὶ ἐποίησεν ἐν αὐτῇ εὐχὴν αὐτοῦ, ἣν ηὔξατο. καὶ αὕτη οὐκ ἔγνω ἄνδρα. καὶ ἐγένετο εἰσ πρόσταγμα ἐν Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 11:39)
  • ὃν γὰρ ἐν ἐκθέσει πάλαι ριφέντα ἀπεῖπον χλευάζοντεσ, ἐπὶ τέλει τῶν ἐκβάσεων ἐθαύμασαν, οὐχ ὅμοια δικαίοισ διψήσαντεσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 11:14)
  • τοιγαροῦν καὶ Ἀθηναίων ὅ τε σύμπασ δῆμοσ καὶ οἱ ἐν τέλει ὑπερφυῶσ ἐθαύμαζον αὐτὸν καὶ διετέλουν ὥσ τινα τῶν κρειττόνων προσβλέποντεσ. (Lucian, (no name) 11:1)
  • "καὶ ἑώθεν μὲν εὐθὺσ ἦν ὁρᾶν παρὰ τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ περιμένοντα γρᾴδια χήρασ τινὰσ καὶ παιδία ὀρφανά, οἱ δὲ ἐν τέλει αὐτῶν καὶ συνεκάθευδον ἔνδον μετ’ αὐτοῦ διαφθείραντεσ τοὺσ δεσμοφύλακασ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:16)
  • τὰ δ’ ἐν τέλει πλείονοσ ἁμαρτίασ πλήρη· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. completion

  2. result

  3. end

  4. boundary

  5. supreme power

  6. money paid to the government

  7. initiation

Related

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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