δεκάλογος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From δέκα (déka, “ten”) +‎ -λογος (-logos, “sentence, utterance”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ðeˈka.lo.ɣos/ → /ðeˈka.lo.ɣos/

• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðeˈka.lo.ɣos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðeˈka.lo.ɣos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðeˈka.lo.ɣos/

Noun

δεκάλογος • (dekálogos) f (genitive δεκαλόγου); second declension

1. (Koine, Byzantine) Decalogue, the Ten Commandments

Declension

Second declension of ἡ δεκάλογος; τῆς δεκαλόγου (Koine)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ δεκάλογος hē dekálogos
Genitive	τῆς δεκαλόγου tês dekalógou
Dative	τῇ δεκαλόγῳ tēî dekalógōi
Accusative	τὴν δεκάλογον tḕn dekálogon
Vocative	δεκάλογε dekáloge

Descendants

• → Esperanto: Dekalogo
• → Latin: decalogus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

Further reading

• δεκάλογος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δεκάλογος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• δεκάλογος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• δεκάλογος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “δεκάλογος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pape, Wilhelm (1914), “δεκάλογος”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900), “δεκάλογος”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 349