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τέλεος (teleos)

τέλεος is an Ancient Greek form of τέλος, meaning “end, completion; duty, office”.

It can also be a form of τέλειος, “perfect, complete, full-grown”. It is the nominative singular masculine adjective.

Found 48 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plato, Cratylus 403·2: … καλούς τινας, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἐπίσταται λόγους λέγειν ὁ Ἅιδης, καὶ ἔστιν, ὥς γʼ ἐκ τοῦ λόγου τούτου, ὁ θεὸς οὗτος τέλεος σοφιστής τε καὶ μέγας εὐεργέτης τῶν παρʼ αὐτῷ, ὅς γε καὶ τοῖς ἐνθάδε τοσαῦτα ἀγαθὰ ἀνίησιν· οὕτω πολλὰ αὐτῷ τ …

All forms of τέλος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.