τέλειος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- τέλεος (téleos)
Etymology
From τέλος (télos, “end”) + -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix). Related to, and largely synonymous with, τελήεις (telḗeis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /té.leː.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈte.li.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈte.li.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈte.li.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈte.li.os/
Adjective
τέλειος • (téleios) m (feminine τελείᾱ, neuter τέλειον); first/second declension
τέλειος • (téleios) m or f (neuter τέλειον); second declension
- having reached its end, finished
- (of victims) complete, perfect, entire, without blemish
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.66
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.34
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.47
- 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 97
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Neaera 60
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 249C
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.247
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.315
- (of animals and humans) full-grown, adult
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1504
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.183
- 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Collected Works 44
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 7.677
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 834C
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Timon or The Misanthrope 50
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 929C
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.4
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.12–14
- 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Collected Works 1.10
- (of persons) absolute, complete, accomplished, perfect
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 32
- 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 403E
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 269E
- 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 30D
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 647D
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 678B
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 9
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Letters 4.3
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 15.60
- 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Collected Works 1.4
- (of things)
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Critias 106B
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1129B.30
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1156B.34
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 271A.1
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.169
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prorrhetics 2.30
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 16.500
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 348B
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 344A
- (of prayers, vows, etc.) fulfilled, accomplished
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Fragments 122.15
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.89
- 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 832
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1432
- 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 353
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.121
- 7th-6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes 526
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 443B
- (of numbers) full, complete
- 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 104
- 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 39D
- (in arithmetic) those numbers which are equal to the sum of their divisors
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 546B
- 350 BCE – 250 BCE, Euclid, Elements 7
- 50 CE – 150 CE, Theon of Smyrna, On Mathematics Useful for the Understanding of Plato 45
- 60 CE – 120 CE, Nicomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic 1.16
- 245 CE – 325 CE, Iamblichus, Theological principles of arithmetic 58
- the third bowl offered to Zeus
- 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 526
- 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 148
- (of victims) complete, perfect, entire, without blemish
- (of the gods) perfect, omnipotent, infinite
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 973
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 13.115
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.67
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 28
- 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 526
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 10.18
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 214
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 383
- 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 973
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 25.22
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 382
- 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 167
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 972
- last
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 948
- (neuter substantive) a royal banquet
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.110
- (feminine substantive) a full stop, period
- 170 BCE – 90 BCE, Dionysius Thrax, Art of Grammar 630.6
- (adverb) at last
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 320
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 953
- completely, absolutely
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.120
- 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 329
- 4th century BC, Isaeus, Euphiletus 4
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 2.2
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 182C
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.286
- 485 BCE – 380 BCE, Gorgias, Encomium of Helen 18
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Against the Sophists 18
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Definitions 411D
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1021B.26
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Judith 11.6
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 16.639
- (the neuter is also used as an adverb)
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, On Salaried Posts in Great Houses (The Dependent Scholar) 5
- 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Civil Wars 1.8
- 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Collected Works 2.56
Inflection
First and second declension of τέλειος; τελείᾱ; τέλειον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | τέλειος téleios | τελείᾱ teleíā | τέλειον téleion | τελείω teleíō | τελείᾱ teleíā | τελείω teleíō | τέλειοι téleioi | τέλειαι téleiai | τέλειᾰ téleia | |||||
Genitive | τελείου teleíou | τελείᾱς teleíās | τελείου teleíou | τελείοιν teleíoin | τελείαιν teleíain | τελείοιν teleíoin | τελείων teleíōn | τελείων teleíōn | τελείων teleíōn | |||||
Dative | τελείῳ teleíōi | τελείᾳ teleíāi | τελείῳ teleíōi | τελείοιν teleíoin | τελείαιν teleíain | τελείοιν teleíoin | τελείοις teleíois | τελείαις teleíais | τελείοις teleíois | |||||
Accusative | τέλειον téleion | τελείᾱν teleíān | τέλειον téleion | τελείω teleíō | τελείᾱ teleíā | τελείω teleíō | τελείους teleíous | τελείᾱς teleíās | τέλειᾰ téleia | |||||
Vocative | τέλειε téleie | τελείᾱ teleíā | τέλειον téleion | τελείω teleíō | τελείᾱ teleíā | τελείω teleíō | τέλειοι téleioi | τέλειαι téleiai | τέλειᾰ téleia | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
τελείως teleíōs | τελεώτερος / τελειότερος teleṓteros / teleióteros | τελεώτατος / τελειότατος teleṓtatos / teleiótatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- τελειόω (teleióō)
Further reading
- “τέλειος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τέλειος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τέλειος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τέλειος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τέλειος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τέλειος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5046 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- absolute idem, page 4.
- accomplished idem, page 6.
- complete idem, page 152.
- comprehensive idem, page 153.
- consummate idem, page 166.
- entire idem, page 277.
- faultless idem, page 311.
- final idem, page 320.
- finished idem, page 321.
- flawless idem, page 326.
- fulfilled idem, page 348.
- full idem, page 348.
- ideal idem, page 413.
- mature idem, page 518.
- perfect idem, page 607.
- ripe idem, page 716.
- thorough idem, page 868.
Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈte.li.os/
- Hyphenation: τέ‧λει‧ος
Adjective
τέλειος • (téleios) m (feminine τέλεια, neuter τέλειο)
- perfect, ideal, complete
Declension
Declension of τέλειος
number case \\ gender | singular | plural | ||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
nominative | τέλειος • | τέλεια • | τέλειο • | τέλειοι • | τέλειες • | τέλεια • |
genitive | τέλειου • | τέλειας • | τέλειου • | τέλειων • | τέλειων • | τέλειων • |
accusative | τέλειο • | τέλεια • | τέλειο • | τέλειους • | τέλειες • | τέλεια • |
vocative | τέλειε • | τέλεια • | τέλειο • | τέλειοι • | τέλειες • | τέλεια • |
derivations | Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο τέλειος, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο τέλειος, etc.) |
Degrees of comparison by suffixation
comparative | singular | plural | ||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
nominative | τελειότερος • | τελειότερη • | τελειότερο • | τελειότεροι • | τελειότερες • | τελειότερα • |
genitive | τελειότερου • | τελειότερης • | τελειότερου • | τελειότερων • | τελειότερων • | τελειότερων • |
accusative | τελειότερο • | τελειότερη • | τελειότερο • | τελειότερους • | τελειότερες • | τελειότερα • |
vocative | τελειότερε • | τελειότερη • | τελειότερο • | τελειότεροι • | τελειότερες • | τελειότερα • |
derivations | relative superlative: ο + comparative forms (eg "ο τελειότερος", etc) | |||||
Absolute superlative | singular | plural | ||||
masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
nominative | τελειότατος • | τελειότατη • | τελειότατο • | τελειότατοι • | τελειότατες • | τελειότατα • |
genitive | τελειότατου • | τελειότατης • | τελειότατου • | τελειότατων • | τελειότατων • | τελειότατων • |
accusative | τελειότατο • | τελειότατη • | τελειότατο • | τελειότατους • | τελειότατες • | τελειότατα • |
vocative | τελειότατε • | τελειότατη • | τελειότατο • | τελειότατοι • | τελειότατες • | τελειότατα • |
Related terms
- ατελειοποίητος (ateleiopoíitos, “unperfected”)
- αυτοτελειοποίηση f (aftoteleiopoíisi, “self-perfectionment”)
- τέλεια (téleia, “perfectely”, adverb)
- τελεία f (teleía, “full stop, period”) (punctuation mark)
- τελειοθηρία f (teleiothiría, “perfectionism”)
- τελειομανής (teleiomanís, “perfectionist”)
- τελειομανία f (teleiomanía, “perfectionism”)
- τελειοποιημένος (teleiopoiiménos, “perfected”, participle)
- τελειοποίηση f (teleiopoíisi, “perfectation”)
- τελειοποιώ (teleiopoió, “make perfect”)
- τελειότητα f (teleiótita, “perfection”)
- τελειόφοιτος (teleiófoitos, “graduate student”)
- τελείωμα n (teleíoma, “completion”)
- τελειωμός m (teleiomós, “completion”)
- τελειώνω (teleióno, “complete, finish”)
- τελειωτικός (teleiotikós, “finite”)
- τελείως (teleíos, “completely”, adverb)
- τελείωση f (teleíosi, “completion”)