δέκα

Ancient Greek

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Cardinal: δέκᾰ (déka)     Ordinal: δέκᾰτος (dékatos)     Adverbial: δεκᾰ́κῐς (dekákis)     Collective: δεκᾰ́ς (dekás)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *dékə, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognates include Sanskrit दश (dáśa), Latin decem, Old Armenian տասն (tasn) and Old English tīen (English ten).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dé.ka/ → /ˈðe.ka/ → /ˈðe.ka/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dé.ka/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈde.ka/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈðe.ka/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈðe.ka/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈðe.ka/

Numeral

δέκᾰ • (déka) (ordinal δέκᾰτος, adverbial δεκᾰ́κῐς)

1. ten

Derived terms

• δυοκαίδεκα (duokaídeka)
• τεσσᾰρεσκαίδεκᾰ (tessareskaídeka)

 

Descendants

• English: deca-
• Greek: δέκα (déka)

References

• “δέκᾰ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δέκα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δέκα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δέκα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• δέκα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δέκα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “δέκα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1176 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.
  • ten idem, page 860.

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Greek

Greek cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : δέκα (déka)     Ordinal : δέκατος (dékatos)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δέκα (déka), from Proto-Hellenic *dékə, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈðe̞ka]
• Hyphenation: δέ‧κα

Numeral

δέκα • (déka) (invariable)

1. ten

See also

• Greek number and measurement