τέτραχα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Compare τέτταρες (téttares, “four”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /té.tra.kʰa/ → /ˈte.tra.xa/ → /ˈte.tra.xa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /té.tra.kʰa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈte.tra.kʰa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈte.tra.xa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈte.tra.xa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈte.tra.xa/

Adverb

τέτρᾰχᾰ • (tétrakha)

1. in four parts
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 464C:

     τέτραχα ἑαυτὴν διανείμασα

     tétrakha heautḕn dianeímasa

References

• “τέτραχα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τέτραχα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τέτραχα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette