τελέθω
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /te.lé.tʰɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /teˈle.tʰo/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /teˈle.θo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /teˈle.θo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /teˈle.θo/
Verb
[edit]τελέθω • (teléthō) (poetic, chiefly Epic)
- to come around (of a period of time)
- to turn out to be, prove to be
- to come into being, be brought about, arise
- to be
- (in middle) to become
Conjugation
[edit]Attested only in the present tense.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “τελέθω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τελέθω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τελέθω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τελέθω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τελέθω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter