τέλειος
Etym. τέλος
I. "having reached its end, finished, complete", Il., etc.: of victims, "perfect, without spot or blemish", id=Il.; τὰ τέλεα τῶν προβάτων Hdt.; of sacrifices, ἱερὰ τέλεια "of full tale or number", or "performed with all" rites, Thuc.; so, αἰετὸς τελειότατος πετεηνῶν is prob. "the surest bird of augury", Il.
2. of animals, "fullgrown", Xen., etc.
3. of persons, "absolute, complete, accomplished, perfect in his or its kind", Plat., etc.: —so of things, φάρμακον τελεώτατον id=Plat.; τ. ἀρετή, φιλία, etc., Arist.
4. of prayers, vows, etc., "fulfilled, accomplished", Pind., Aesch.; ὄψις οὐ τελέη a vision "which imported" nothing, Hdt.; τ. ψῆφος "a fixed" resolve, Soph.
5. in Arithm., those numbers are τέλειοι, which are equal to the sum of their divisors, as 6 = 3 + 2 + 1, Plat.
II. of the gods, "fulfilling prayer", Ζεὺς τ. Zeus "the fulfiller", Pind., Aesch.; of Hera ζυγία, Lat. Juno pronuba, the presiding goddess of marriage, Pind., Aesch., etc.:—so, τέλειος ἀνήρ, = Lat. paterfamilias, the lord of the house, Aesch.
III. = τελευταῖος, "last", Soph.
IV. τέλειον (not τέλεον), τό, "a royal banquet", as a transl. of the Pers. "tycta", Hdt.
V. adv. τελέως, "at last", Aesch., Plat., etc.
2. "perfectly, absolutely, thoroughly", Hdt.
3. the neut. τέλεον is also used as adv., Luc.
VI. comp. and Sup.: Hom. uses τελεώτερος, -εώτατος or τελειότερος, -ειότατος, as his metre requires: in attic τελεώτερος, -ώτατος prevail.