ἑξακόσιοι

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

	6,000
←  500	χ’ 600	700  →
	60
Cardinal: ἑξᾰκόσῐοι (hexăkósĭoi)     Ordinal: ἑξᾰκοσῐοστός (hexăkosĭostós)

Alternative forms

• ϝεξακάτιοι (wexakátioi) — Doric

Etymology

From ἕξ (héx, “six”) +‎ -ακόσιοι (-akósioi, “hundred”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hek.sa.kó.si.oi̯/ → /ek.saˈko.si.y/ → /ek.saˈko.si.i/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hek.sa.kó.si.oi̯/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ek.saˈko.si.y/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ek.saˈko.si.y/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ek.saˈko.si.y/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ek.saˈko.si.i/

Numeral

ἑξᾰκόσῐοι • (hexăkósĭoi) (ordinal ἑξᾰκοσῐοστός, adverbial ἑξᾰκοσῐάκῐς)

1. six hundred

Declension

First and second declension of ἑξᾰκόσῐοι; ἑξᾰκόσῐαι; ἑξᾰκόσῐᾰ (Attic)

Number		Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ἑξᾰκόσῐοι hexăkósĭoi	ἑξᾰκόσῐαι hexăkósĭai	ἑξᾰκόσῐᾰ hexăkósĭă
Genitive		ἑξᾰκοσῐ́ων hexăkosĭ́ōn	ἑξᾰκοσῐ́ων hexăkosĭ́ōn	ἑξᾰκοσῐ́ων hexăkosĭ́ōn
Dative		ἑξᾰκοσῐ́οις hexăkosĭ́ois	ἑξᾰκοσῐ́αις hexăkosĭ́ais	ἑξᾰκοσῐ́οις hexăkosĭ́ois
Accusative		ἑξᾰκοσῐ́ους hexăkosĭ́ous	ἑξᾰκοσῐ́ᾱς hexăkosĭ́ās	ἑξᾰκόσῐᾰ hexăkósĭă
Vocative		ἑξᾰκόσῐοι hexăkósĭoi	ἑξᾰκόσῐαι hexăkósĭai	ἑξᾰκόσῐᾰ hexăkósĭă
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: εξακόσια (exakósia)
• →⇒ English: hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
• →⇒ English: hexacosichoron

Further reading

• ἑξακόσιοι in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἑξακόσιοι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• ἑξακόσιοι, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἑξακόσιοι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G1812 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible