τελώνης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τέλος (télos, “tax”) + ὠνέομαι (ōnéomai).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /te.lɔ̌ː.nɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /teˈlo.ne̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /teˈlo.nis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /teˈlo.nis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /teˈlo.nis/
Noun
τελώνης • (telṓnēs) m (genitive τελώνου); first declension
- a farmer or collector or the tolls, customs or taxes of a state, tax collector
- 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 248
- 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Timarchus 119
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Herodas, Collected Works 6.64
- 260 CE – 340 CE, Eusebius, Preparations for the Gospel 15.2
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 12.13.9
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 8.587
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 9.804
- 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 5:46
Inflection
First declension of ὁ τελώνης; τοῦ τελώνου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τελώνης ho telṓnēs | τὼ τελώνᾱ tṑ telṓnā | οἱ τελῶναι hoi telônai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τελώνου toû telṓnou | τοῖν τελώναιν toîn telṓnain | τῶν τελωνῶν tôn telōnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τελώνῃ tôi telṓnēi | τοῖν τελώναιν toîn telṓnain | τοῖς τελώναις toîs telṓnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τελώνην tòn telṓnēn | τὼ τελώνᾱ tṑ telṓnā | τοὺς τελώνᾱς toùs telṓnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | τελώνη telṓnē | τελώνᾱ telṓnā | τελῶναι telônai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “τελώνης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τελώνης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τελώνης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G5057 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.
- collector idem, page 143.
- customs idem, page 192.
- excise-officer idem, page 289.
- farmer idem, page 307.
- publican idem, page 656.
- tax-collector idem, page 857.
- toll-collector idem, page 880.