εἴκοσι

See also: είκοσι

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

		200
←  10	←  17	κʹ 20	30  →
		2
Cardinal: εἴκοσῐ (eíkosi)     Ordinal: εἰκοστός (eikostós)     Adverbial: εἰκοσάκις (eikosákis)     Collective: εἰκοσάς (eikosás)

Alternative forms

• ἐείκοσῐ (eeíkosi) — Epic
• ϝίκᾰτῐ (wíkati), ϝείκᾰτῐ (weíkati) — Doric
• βείκᾰτῐ (beíkati) — Laconian

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *ewīkəti, from Proto-Indo-European *wídḱm̥ti (“twenty”). Cognate with Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśatí), Latin vīgintī, Old Armenian քսան (kʻsan), Welsh ugain,Tocharian A wiki,, Albanian -zet.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ěː.ko.si/ → /ˈi.ko.si/ → /ˈi.ko.si/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ěː.ko.si/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ko.si/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ko.si/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ko.si/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ko.si/

Numeral

εἴκοσῐ • (eíkosi)

1. twenty

Descendants

• Greek: είκοσι (eíkosi)

References

• “εἴκοσι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εἴκοσι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “εἴκοσι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• εἴκοσι 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
• εἴκοσι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• εἴκοσι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “εἴκοσι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1501 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.
  • twenty idem, page 903.