telish

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromτέλος“result”, “end”, loosely “the greater good”
2. English todaytelish

Coined by John Rawls in his 1955 paper “Two Concepts of Rules”. Probably a portmanteau of the Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “result”, “end”, loosely “the greater good”) and the English (pun)ish, after telishment.

Words from the same roots