τελεσφόρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τέλος (télos, “end, goal”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “to carrying”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /te.les.pʰó.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /te.lesˈpʰo.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /te.lesˈɸo.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /te.lesˈfo.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /te.lesˈfo.ros/
Adjective
τελεσφόρος • (telesphóros) m or f (neuter τελεσφόρον); second declension
- completing, accomplishing, fulfilling, perfecting
- accomplishing one's purpose
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | τελεσφόρος telesphóros |
τελεσφόρον telesphóron |
τελεσφόρω telesphórō |
τελεσφόρω telesphórō |
τελεσφόροι telesphóroi |
τελεσφόρᾰ telesphóră | ||||||||
| Genitive | τελεσφόρου telesphórou |
τελεσφόρου telesphórou |
τελεσφόροιν telesphóroin |
τελεσφόροιν telesphóroin |
τελεσφόρων telesphórōn |
τελεσφόρων telesphórōn | ||||||||
| Dative | τελεσφόρῳ telesphórōi |
τελεσφόρῳ telesphórōi |
τελεσφόροιν telesphóroin |
τελεσφόροιν telesphóroin |
τελεσφόροις telesphórois |
τελεσφόροις telesphórois | ||||||||
| Accusative | τελεσφόρον telesphóron |
τελεσφόρον telesphóron |
τελεσφόρω telesphórō |
τελεσφόρω telesphórō |
τελεσφόρους telesphórous |
τελεσφόρᾰ telesphóră | ||||||||
| Vocative | τελεσφόρε telesphóre |
τελεσφόρον telesphóron |
τελεσφόρω telesphórō |
τελεσφόρω telesphórō |
τελεσφόροι telesphóroi |
τελεσφόρᾰ telesphóră | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| τελεσφόρως telesphórōs |
τελεσφορώτερος telesphorṓteros |
τελεσφορώτᾰτος telesphorṓtătos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Τελεσφόρος (Telesphóros)
Further reading
- “τελεσφόρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τελεσφόρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τελεσφόρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- τελεσφόρος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “τελεσφόρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- accomplished idem, page 6.
- consummating idem, page 166.
- fulfilled idem, page 348.