τεσσαράκοντα
Ancient Greek
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| ← 30 | μʹ 40 |
50 → |
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| 4 | ||
| Cardinal: τεσσᾰρᾰ́κοντᾰ (tessarákonta) Ordinal: τεσσαρακοστός (tessarakostós) Adverbial: τεσσαρακοντάκις (tessarakontákis) Collective: τεσσαρακοντάς (tessarakontás) | ||
Alternative forms
- πετταράκοντα (pettarákonta) — Boeotian
- τεσσεράκοντα (tesserákonta) — Ionic
- τεταράκοντα (tetarákonta) — Doric
- τετράϙοντα (tetráqonta) — Sicilian Ionic
- τετρώκοντα (tetrṓkonta) — Doric
- τετταράκοντα (tettarákonta) — Attic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥̄ḱomt, from earlier *kʷetwr̥-dḱomt (“four-ten”). Cognates include Sanskrit चत्वारिंशत् (catvāriṃśát), Latin quadrāgintā, Old Armenian քառասուն (kʻaṙasun).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tes.sa.rá.kon.ta/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tes.saˈra.kon.ta/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tes.saˈra.kon.ta/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tes.saˈra.kon.ta/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /te.saˈra.kon.da/
Numeral
τεσσᾰρᾰ́κοντᾰ • (tessarákonta)
Descendants
- Greek: σαράντα (saránta)
References
- “τεσσαράκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τεσσαράκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τεσσαράκοντα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τεσσαράκοντα 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
- τεσσαράκοντα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τεσσαράκοντα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5062 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.
- forty idem, page 340.