τέλος

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). See Latin colō for more.

Pronunciation

Noun

τέλος • (télos) n (genitive τέλεος or τέλους); third declension

1. completion, accomplishment, fulfillment, perfection, consummation
2. result, product
3. end
4. end of life: death
5. boundary, border, extremity
6. supreme power
7. the highest government office: magistrate
8. that which is ordered to be done: task, duty
9. money paid to the government: tax, toll
10. a person's property, according to which he was classed
11. thus, generally: rank, class
12. unit of soldiers: legion, company
13. initiation (especially into mystery religions)
14. mystery religion
15. any religious ceremony

Further reading

• τέλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τέλος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τέλος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τέλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• τέλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• τέλος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5056 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accomplishment idem, page 6.
  • ceremony idem, page 122.
  • cessation idem, page 122.
  • close idem, page 138.
  • completion idem, page 152.
  • conclusion idem, page 156.
  • consequence idem, page 162.
  • consummation idem, page 166.
  • culmination idem, page 188.
  • customs idem, page 192.
  • division idem, page 244.
  • due idem, page 255.
  • duty idem, page 257.
  • effect idem, page 262.
  • end idem, page 272.
  • event idem, page 285.
  • eventually idem, page 285.
  • excise idem, page 289.
  • expiration idem, page 294.
  • finality idem, page 320.
  • finally idem, page 320.
  • finish idem, page 321.
  • fulfilment idem, page 348.
  • function idem, page 349.
  • goal idem, page 365.
  • impost idem, page 423.
  • issue idem, page 461.
  • last idem, page 477.
  • legion idem, page 484.
  • office idem, page 571.
  • perfection idem, page 607.
  • period idem, page 607.
  • rate idem, page 673.
  • result idem, page 706.
  • rite idem, page 718.
  • royalty idem, page 724.
  • run idem, page 726.
  • sequel idem, page 754.
  • service idem, page 755.
  • squadron idem, page 807.
  • task idem, page 856.
  • tax idem, page 857.
  • termination idem, page 863.
  • toll idem, page 880.
  • troop idem, page 896.
  • ultimately idem, page 905.
  • worship idem, page 990.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τέλος (télos).

Noun

τέλος • (télos) n (plural τέλη)

1. end, finish

   Θα έρθω στο τέλος του μήνα. ― Tha értho sto télos tou mína. ― I will come at the end of the month.

   το τέλος του κόσμου ― to télos tou kósmou ― the end of the world