τελώνης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τέλος (télos, “tax”) +‎ ὠνέομαι (ōnéomai).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /te.lɔ̌ː.nɛːs/ → /teˈlo.nis/ → /teˈlo.nis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /te.lɔ̌ː.nɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /teˈlo.ne̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /teˈlo.nis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /teˈlo.nis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /teˈlo.nis/

Noun

τελώνης • (telṓnēs) m (genitive τελώνου); first declension

1. a farmer or collector or the tolls, customs or taxes of a state, tax collector
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 248
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Timarchus 119
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Herodas, Collected Works 6.64
   • 260 CE – 340 CE, Eusebius, Preparations for the Gospel 15.2
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 12.13.9
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 8.587
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 9.804
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 5:46

Inflection

First declension of ὁ τελώνης; τοῦ τελώνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τελώνης ho telṓnēs	τὼ τελώνᾱ tṑ telṓnā	οἱ τελῶναι hoi telônai
Genitive	τοῦ τελώνου toû telṓnou	τοῖν τελώναιν toîn telṓnain	τῶν τελωνῶν tôn telōnôn
Dative	τῷ τελώνῃ tôi telṓnēi	τοῖν τελώναιν toîn telṓnain	τοῖς τελώναις toîs telṓnais
Accusative	τὸν τελώνην tòn telṓnēn	τὼ τελώνᾱ tṑ telṓnā	τοὺς τελώνᾱς toùs telṓnās
Vocative	τελώνη telṓnē	τελώνᾱ telṓnā	τελῶναι telônai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “τελώνης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τελώνης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τελώνης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5057 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • collector idem, page 143.
  • customs idem, page 192.
  • excise-officer idem, page 289.
  • farmer idem, page 307.
  • publican idem, page 656.
  • tax-collector idem, page 857.
  • toll-collector idem, page 880.

Greek

Noun

τελώνης • (telónis) m or f (plural τελώνες)

1. customs officer, tax collector

Declension

Declension of τελώνης

	singular	plural
nominative	τελώνης •	τελώνες •
genitive	τελώνη •	τελωνών •
accusative	τελώνη •	τελώνες •
vocative	τελώνη •	τελώνες •

Related terms

• αρχιτελώνης m (architelónis, “chief customs officer”)

Further reading

• τελώνης on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• τελώνης, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language