τέλος
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- completion, accomplishment, fulfillment, perfection, consummation
- result, product
- end
- end of life: death
- boundary, border, extremity
- supreme power
- the highest government office: magistrate
- that which is ordered to be done: task, duty
- money paid to the government: tax, toll
- a person's property, according to which he was classed
- thus, generally: rank, class
- unit of soldiers: legion, company
- initiation (especially into mystery religions)
- mystery religion
- any religious ceremony
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (turn, move, going around, revolve, far, dwell, and therefore to sojourn, revolve around), *kʷel- (turn, move, going around, revolve, far, dwell, and therefore to sojourn, revolve around).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷel-
Gloss
turn, move, going around, revolve, far, dwell, and therefore to sojourn, revolve around
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
🙃
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -mer English
- -mere English
- Aristotle English
- autotelic English
- columnist English
- cult English
- decollate English
- decollation English
- epimeron English
- horticulture English
- mereology English
- meristics English
- meronym English
- meronymy English
- meropic English
- peritelomere English
- subtelomere English
- telangiectasia English
- telangiectasic English
- tele- English
- telegram English
- teleio- English
- telencephalon English
- teleo- English
- teleocracy English
- telephone English
- telestial English
- telestich English
- teletype English
- television English
- telic English
- telicity English
- tellural English
- telogonic English
- telomerase English
- telomere English
- telomeric English
- telomeropathy English
- telos English
- mereologia Finnish
- -cola Latin
- Aristoteles Latin
- Aristotelēs Latin
- Colōnia Agrippīna Latin
- Prāxitelēs Latin
- accolo Latin
- ad- Latin
- agricola Latin
- agricultura Latin
- arachidicola Latin
- circumcolo Latin
- collum Latin
- collāris Latin
- colo Latin
- colonia Latin
- colonus Latin
- columna Latin
- colō Latin
- colōnia Latin
- cultor Latin
- cultrix Latin
- cultura Latin
- cultus Latin
- cultōrem Latin
- cultūra Latin
- excolo Latin
- incolo Latin
- teleolog Latin
- telephonum Latin
- tellus Latin
- undicola Latin
- viscericola Latin
- visio Latin
- vīsiō Latin
- Centromer German
- Telluroxyd German
- Arisztotelész Hungarian
- tele- Hungarian
- Aristotele Italian
- telefonata Italian
- telefonatore Italian
- telefonatrice Italian
- tele- Dutch, Flemish
- telegraferen Dutch, Flemish
- telegrafisch Dutch, Flemish
- teleologie Dutch, Flemish
- teleologisch Dutch, Flemish
- telescoop Dutch, Flemish
- tellurique French
- télé- French
- télégraphe French
- télégraphie French
- téléphone French
- télévision French
- Аристотель Russian
- телеология Russian
- телефон Russian
- Aristóteles Spanish, Castilian
- centrómero Spanish, Castilian
- -ης Ancient Greek
- Πραξιτέλης Ancient Greek
- Τήλεφος Ancient Greek
- Τηλέμαχος Ancient Greek
- Τηλέπυλος Ancient Greek
- αὐτός Ancient Greek
- βουκολικός Ancient Greek
- γόνος Ancient Greek
- εὐτελής Ancient Greek
- κυκλοτερής Ancient Greek
- κύκλος Ancient Greek
- μέρος Ancient Greek
- πάλαι Ancient Greek
- πέλω Ancient Greek
- περιπλόμενος Ancient Greek
- πλήμνη Ancient Greek
- πολυτελής Ancient Greek
- πρᾶξις Ancient Greek
- πόλος Ancient Greek
- τέλειος Ancient Greek
- τέλεσμα Ancient Greek
- τελέω Ancient Greek
- τελήεις Ancient Greek
- τελειόω Ancient Greek
- τελώνης Ancient Greek
- τηλεσκόπος Ancient Greek
- τηλόθεν Ancient Greek
- τρία Ancient Greek
- τῆλε Ancient Greek
- ἀγγεῖον Ancient Greek
- ἀνατολή Ancient Greek
- ἀποτελέω Ancient Greek
- ἀτελείωτος Ancient Greek
- ἄριστος Ancient Greek
- Ἀριστοτέλης Ancient Greek
- ἐντελής Ancient Greek
- ἑπταμερής Ancient Greek
- ἔκτασις Ancient Greek
- ὅμοιος Ancient Greek
- ὑποτελέω Ancient Greek
- ὑποτελής Ancient Greek
- ὠνέομαι Ancient Greek
- *(s)kel- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)mer- Proto-Indo-European
- *-kʷolos Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷowkólos Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷowkólos, *gʷow-kólos Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁ésmi Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂mbʰi-kʷol-ó-s, *h₂m̥bʰikʷolós Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷekʷlóm Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷl̥His Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷl̥tós Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷolso- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷolsom Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷukʷlos Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷékʷlos Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷéleti Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷélus Proto-Indo-European
- *telh₂-o- Proto-Indo-European
- *wert- Proto-Indo-European
- *wes- Proto-Indo-European
- polymer Norwegian Bokmål
- tele- Norwegian Bokmål
- Aristóteles Portuguese
- culto Portuguese
- Arystoteles Polish
- polymer Norwegian Nynorsk
- tele- Norwegian Nynorsk
- आचार Sanskrit
- चर् Sanskrit
- चलति Sanskrit
- চৰতি, चरति Sanskrit
- -méir Irish
- Arastotail Irish
- teili- Irish
- inquilinus Old Norse
- *kolo Proto-Slavic
- Aristotelés Czech
- tele- Czech
- أرسطو Arabic
- أَرِسْطُو Arabic
- Aristotel Serbo-Croatian
- Аристотел Serbo-Croatian
- Aristòtil Catalan, Valencian
- tele- Catalan, Valencian
- Aristóteles Icelandic
- Aristóteles Galician
- چالش Persian
- چریدن Persian
- Αριστοτέλης Greek (modern)
- μέρος Greek (modern)
- πολυτελής Greek (modern)
- τέλος Greek (modern)
- υποτελής Greek (modern)
- dychwelyd Welsh
- pell Welsh
- aristotiles Middle Dutch
- Aristotelis Latvian
- klaips Latvian
- հոլով Old Armenian
- Arasdotal Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- Aristotle Malay
- -мер Bulgarian
- Аристотел Bulgarian
- စက်ဘီး Burmese
- телеология Kazakh
- Aristotel Azerbaijani
- არისტოტელე Georgian
- Аристотел Macedonian
- Арістотель Ukrainian
- *čárati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- stricor Aromanian
- Aristotile Maltese
- Арыстоцель Belarusian
- Aristotel Slovene
- Aristóteles Asturian
- Aristotle Scots
- Aristotelis Lithuanian
- Aristotil Old Spanish
- Aristotele Basque
- tele- Basque
- ꦄꦫꦶꦱ꧀ꦠꦺꦴꦠꦼꦭꦼꦱ꧀ Javanese
- aṅklautkatte Tocharian B
- *palaiós, *palai(y)ós Proto-Hellenic
- *kaklas bat-pro
- -ης
- τῆλε
- τρία
- πέλω
- γόνος
- αὐτός
- πάλαι
- πόλος
- τελέω
- μέρος
- ὅμοιος
- πλήμνη
- πρᾶξις
- κύκλος
- τελώνης
- ἄριστος
- τελειόω
- τελήεις
- τέλειος
- ἐντελής
- ὠνέομαι
- ἔκτασις
- Τήλεφος
- τηλόθεν
- εὐτελής
- τέλεσμα
- ἀνατολή
- ἀγγεῖον
- ὑποτελής
- ἀποτελέω
- ὑποτελέω
- ἑπταμερής
- Τηλέπυλος
- Τηλέμαχος
- πολυτελής
- ἀτελείωτος
- βουκολικός
- κυκλοτερής
- τηλεσκόπος
- Πραξιτέλης
- Ἀριστοτέλης
- περιπλόμενος