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Headword: *telew/teron
Adler number: tau,258
Translated headword: more perfect, rather perfect
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] something perfect.
Greek Original:
*telew/teron: to\ te/leion.
Notes:
The headword is comparative of the adjective te/leos, neuter nominative/accusative singular. It must be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities are numerous, beginning with three in Plato (e.g. Phaedrus 244D: prophecy is a more perfect thing than augury).
Adler reports a comparable lemma in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 December 2013@00:46:29.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (expanded note; tweaking) on 1 December 2013@04:43:46.
David Whitehead on 8 January 2014@03:57:24.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 27 August 2014@21:40:25.
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