τελειόω
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- τελεόω (teleóō)
Etymology
From τέλειος (téleios, “finished”) + -όω (-óō) from τέλος (télos, “end”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /te.leː.ó.ɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /te.liˈo.o/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /te.liˈo.o/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /te.liˈo.o/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /te.liˈo.o/
Verb
τελειόω • (teleióō)
- (of things, acts, works, time) to make perfect, complete, accomplish
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.120
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.32
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1174B.23
- 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 4:34
- 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 2:43
- New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 20:24
- 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Collected Works 1.126
- 245 CE – 325 CE, Iamblichus, On the Pythagorean Way of Life 29.!58
- 245 CE – 325 CE, Iamblichus, Protrepticus
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.160
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1257
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 272D
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.11
- (in logic) to complete, make perfect the form or species
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1174A.16
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 29A.16
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 29A.30
- (passive, of prophecies) to be fulfilled
- 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 19:28
- (of persons) to bring to perfection or consummation
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.86
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1089
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1510
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 192A
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 466E
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 487A
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 498B
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 776A.31
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 8.2.6
- 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Collected Works 1.33
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.531
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.162
- (passive) to be made perfect
- New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 11:40
- New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 12:23
- (intransitive) to bring fruit to maturity, come to maturity
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 757B.24
Inflection
Present: τελειῶ, τελειοῦμαι (Contracted)
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | τελειῶ | τελειοῖς | τελειοῖ | τελειοῦτον | τελειοῦτον | τελειοῦμεν | τελειοῦτε | τελειοῦσῐ(ν) | ||||
subjunctive | τελειῶ | τελειοῖς | τελειοῖ | τελειῶτον | τελειῶτον | τελειῶμεν | τελειῶτε | τελειῶσῐ(ν) | |||||
optative | τελειοίην, τελειοῖμῐ | τελειοίης, τελειοῖς | τελειοίη, τελειοῖ | τελειοῖτον, τελειοίητον | τελειοίτην, τελειοιήτην | τελειοῖμεν, τελειοίημεν | τελειοῖτε, τελειοίητε | τελειοῖεν, τελειοίησᾰν | |||||
imperative | τελείου | τελειούτω | τελειοῦτον | τελειούτων | τελειοῦτε | τελειούντων | |||||||
middle/ passive | indicative | τελειοῦμαι | τελειοῖ | τελειοῦται | τελειοῦσθον | τελειοῦσθον | τελειούμεθᾰ | τελειοῦσθε | τελειοῦνται | ||||
subjunctive | τελειῶμαι | τελειοῖ | τελειῶται | τελειῶσθον | τελειῶσθον | τελειώμεθᾰ | τελειῶσθε | τελειῶνται | |||||
optative | τελειοίμην | τελειοῖο | τελειοῖτο | τελειοῖσθον | τελειοίσθην | τελειοίμεθᾰ | τελειοῖσθε | τελειοῖντο | |||||
imperative | τελειοῦ | τελειούσθω | τελειοῦσθον | τελειούσθων | τελειοῦσθε | τελειούσθων | |||||||
active | middle/passive | ||||||||||||
infinitive | τελειοῦν | τελειοῦσθαι | |||||||||||
participle | m | τελειῶν | τελειούμενος | ||||||||||
f | τελειοῦσᾰ | τελειουμένη | |||||||||||
n | τελειοῦν | τελειούμενον | |||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. |
References
- “τελειόω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τελειόω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τελειόω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G5048 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible