ἑπτά

See also: επτά

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: ἑπτᾰ́ (heptắ)     Ordinal: ἕβδομος (hébdomos)     Adverbial: ἑπτᾰ́κῐς (heptắkĭs)     Collective: ἑπτᾰ́ς (heptắs), ἑβδομᾰ́ς (hebdomắs)

Alternative forms

• ἕπτ’ (hépt’) — apocopic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *heptə́, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥. Cognates include Latin septem, Sanskrit सप्त (saptá), Old Armenian եաւթն (eawtʻn), Old English seofon (English seven).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hep.tá/ → /epˈta/ → /epˈta/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hep.tá/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)epˈta/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /epˈta/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /epˈta/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /epˈta/

Numeral

ἑπτᾰ́ • (heptắ) (ordinal ἕβδομος, adverbial ἑπτάκις)

1. seven

Derived terms

• ἑπταβόειος (heptabóeios)
• ἑπτάγωνος (heptágōnos)

Descendants

• → English: hepta-
• Greek: επτά (eptá), εφτά (eftá)
• Mariupol Greek: эфта́ (eftá)
• → Romani: efta
  • Tavringer Romani: jeffta, efta

Further reading

• “ἑπτά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἑπτά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἑπτά”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἑπτά 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
• ἑπτά in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἑπτά”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2033 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.
  • seven idem, page 759.
• ἑπτά, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011