τέσσαρες
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Cardinal: τέσσᾰρες (téssares) Ordinal: τέτᾰρτος (tétartos) Adverbial: τετρᾰ́κῐς (tetrákis) Collective: τετρᾰ́ς (tetrás) |
Alternative forms
[edit]- τέττᾰρες (téttares) — Attic
- τέσσερες (tésseres) — Ionic, later Greek
- τέτορες (tétores) — Doric
- πῐ́σῠρες (písures) — Epic, Aeolic
- πέσῠρες (pésures), πέσσῠρες (péssures) — Aeolic
- πέττᾰρες (péttares) — Boeotian
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *kʷétwores, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀤𐀵𐀫 (qe-to-ro), Sanskrit चतुर् (catur), Old Armenian չորք (čʻorkʻ), Latin quattuor, and Old English fēower (English four).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tés.sa.res/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtes.sa.res/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtes.sa.res/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtes.sa.res/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈte.sa.res/
Numeral
[edit]τέσσᾰρες • (téssares) (ordinal τέτᾰρτος, adverbial τετρᾰ́κῐς)
Declension
[edit]Number | Plural | |||||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||||||
Nominative | τέσσᾰρες téssares |
τέσσᾰρᾰ téssara | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τεσσᾰ́ρων tessárōn |
τεσσᾰ́ρων tessárōn | ||||||||||||
Dative | τέσσᾰρσῐ / τέσσᾰρσῐν téssarsi(n) |
τέσσᾰρσῐ / τέσσᾰρσῐν téssarsi(n) | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τέσσᾰρᾰς téssaras |
τέσσᾰρᾰ téssara | ||||||||||||
Vocative | — | — | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- τετρα- (tetra-)
- τεσσᾰρεσκαίδεκᾰ (tessareskaídeka)
- τεσσαράκοντα (tessarákonta)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “τέσσᾰρες”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τέσσαρες”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τέσσαρες”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τέσσαρες 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
- τέσσαρες in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τέσσαρες”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5064 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.
- four idem, page 341.
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- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek numerals
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