Lexical Definition

‎τελευτή‎ teleutḗ (tel-yoo-tay') death ^G:N-F
from ‎τελευτάω‎

death.

• decease

Abbott-Smith

τελευτή, -ῆς, ἡ (< τελέω), [in LXX chiefly for מָוֶת, מוּת;]
1. a finishing.
2. an end: τ. βίου (Hdt., al.): also without βίου, the end of life, death (Hdt., Plat., al.): Mt 2:15.†

Abbott-Smith References

Liddell-Scott-Jones

τελευτή-ή, ἡ,

(τελέω) completion, accomplishment, τελευτήὴν ποιῆσαι [γάμου] accomplish, [τελευτήὰν γάμου 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.66 ">Refs 8th c.BC+]; τ. νόστου[Refs 8th c.BC+]

__2 event, issue, δεῖξεν πᾶσαν τ. πράγματος [Refs 6th c.BC+]; γάμου πικραὶ τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 termination, end, οὐδέ τις ἦν ἔριδος λύσις οὐδὲ τ. [τελευτήὴν ἐπιτιθέντες κινδύνοις 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.47; τελευτήὴν ἔχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 782a. ">Refs 8th c.BC+]
__4 especially βιότοιο τ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.104, 16.787; βίου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.30, 31, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.24; τ. τοῦ βίου τελεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 79; ἐπὶ τελευτήῇ τοῦ βίου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 516a.
__4.b frequently without βίου, the end of life, death, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τελευτήῆς λαχεῖν, τυχεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; periphrastic, θανάτοιο τ. the end that is death, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
__5 with Preps., in adverb sense, ἐς τελευτήήν at the end, at last, [τελευτήῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 267d, etc.; ἐν τελευτήᾷ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.26, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 936 (Lyric poetry). ">Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II end, extremity of anything, as of limbs, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 end, close of a sentence, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of a play, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of a word, [Refs 1st c.AD+]