ἑκατόν

See also: εκατόν and ἕκατον

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

		1,000
←  10	←  90	ρ’ 100	200  →	1,000  →
		10
Cardinal: ἑκᾰτόν (hekătón)     Ordinal: ἑκᾰτοστός (hekătostós)     Adverbial: ἑκᾰτοντᾰ́κις (hekătontắkis)     Collective: ἑκατοντάς (hekatontás)

Alternative forms

• ἑκοτόν (hekotón) — Arcadocypriot

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *hekətón, see there for more. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Cognates include Old English hundred (English hundred), Latin centum, Sanskrit शत (śatá), and Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬀 (sata).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /he.ka.tón/ → /e.kaˈton/ → /e.kaˈton/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /he.ka.tón/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)e.kaˈton/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.kaˈton/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.kaˈton/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.kaˈton/

Numeral

ἑκᾰτόν • (hekătón) (ordinal ἑκᾰτοστός, adverbial ἑκᾰτοντᾰ́κις)

1. hundred

Derived terms

• ἑκᾰτον- (hekăton-)
• ἑκᾰτοντο- (hekătonto-)

Related terms

• -ᾱκόσιοι (-ākósioi)

Descendants

• Greek: εκατό (ekató)
• Mariupol Greek: като́ (kató)
• → English: hecato-

See also

• διακόσιοι (diakósioi, “two hundred”), σ΄
• τριακόσιοι (triakósioi, “three hundred”) (triakósioi), τ΄
• τετρακόσιοι (tetrakósioi, “four hundred”) (tetrakósioi), υ΄
• πεντακόσιοι (pentakósioi, “five hundred”) (pentakósioi), φ΄
• ἑξακόσιοι (hexakósioi) (hexakósioi, “six hundred”), χ΄
• ἑπτακόσιοι (heptakósioi) (heptakósioi, “seven hundred”), ψ΄
• ὀκτακόσιοι (oktakósioi, “eight hundred”), ω΄
• ἐνακόσιοι (enakósioi, “nine hundred”), ϡ΄

References

• “ἑκατόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἑκατόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἑκατόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἑκατόν 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
• ἑκατόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἑκατόν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἑκατόν”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1540 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.
  • hundred idem, page 410.