ἐντελέχεια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Coined by Aristotle from ἐντελής (entelḗs, “complete, full, accomplished”) + ἔχειν (ékhein, “have, hold”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /en.te.lé.kʰeː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /en.teˈle.kʰi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /en.teˈle.çi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /en.teˈle.çi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /en.deˈle.çi.a/
Noun
ἐντελέχειᾰ • (entelékheiă) f (genitive ἐντελεχείᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἐντελέχειᾰ hē entelékheiă |
τὼ ἐντελεχείᾱ tṑ entelekheíā |
αἱ ἐντελέχειαι hai entelékheiai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐντελεχείᾱς tês entelekheíās |
τοῖν ἐντελεχείαιν toîn entelekheíain |
τῶν ἐντελεχειῶν tôn entelekheiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐντελεχείᾳ tēî entelekheíāi |
τοῖν ἐντελεχείαιν toîn entelekheíain |
ταῖς ἐντελεχείαις taîs entelekheíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἐντελέχειᾰν tḕn entelékheiăn |
τὼ ἐντελεχείᾱ tṑ entelekheíā |
τᾱ̀ς ἐντελεχείᾱς tā̀s entelekheíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐντελέχειᾰ entelékheiă |
ἐντελεχείᾱ entelekheíā |
ἐντελέχειαι entelékheiai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: entelexiya
- → Basque: entelekia
- → Catalan: entelèquia
- → Czech: entelechie
- → Danish: enteleki
- → Dutch: entelechie
- → English: entelechy
- → Esperanto: entelekio
- → Estonian: entelehhia
- → Finnish: entelekia
- → French: entéléchie
- → German: Entelechie
- Greek: εντελέχεια (entelécheia)
- → Italian: entelechia
- → Polish: entelechia
- → Portuguese: entelequia
- → Romanian: entelehie
- → Russian: энтеле́хия f (enteléxija)
- → Slovak: entelechia
- → Spanish: entelequia
- → Swedish: enteleki
- → Ukrainian: ентелехія (entelexija)
Further reading
- “ἐντελέχεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐντελέχεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐντελέχεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)