δώδεκα

Ancient Greek

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Cardinal: δώδεκᾰ (dṓdeka)     Ordinal: δωδέκᾰτος (dōdékatos)     Adverbial: δωδεκᾰ́κῐς (dōdekákis)     Collective: δωδεκᾰ́ς (dōdekás)

Alternative forms

• δυόδεκο (duódeko) — Arcadian
• δυοκαίδεκα (duokaídeka), δυώδεκα (duṓdeka) — Epic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dwoΗdeḱm̥. Cognates include Sanskrit द्वादश (dvā́daśa) and Latin duodecim.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dɔ̌ː.de.ka/ → /ˈðo.ðe.ka/ → /ˈðo.ðe.ka/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dɔ̌ː.de.ka/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.de.ka/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈðo.ðe.ka/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈðo.ðe.ka/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈðo.ðe.ka/

Numeral

δώδεκᾰ • (dṓdeka) (ordinal δωδέκᾰτος, adverbial δωδεκᾰ́κῐς)

1. twelve

Descendants

• Greek: δώδεκα (dódeka)
• Mariupol Greek: дъо́дъэка (ðóðeka), дъо́дъека (ðóðjeka)
• Sicilian: dùdica-

References

• “δώδεκα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δώδεκα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δώδεκα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δώδεκα 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
• δώδεκα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δώδεκα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “δώδεκα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1427 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.
  • dozen idem, page 249.
  • twelve idem, page 903.

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Greek

Greek cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : δώδεκα (dódeka)     Ordinal : δωδέκατος (dodékatos)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δώδεκα (dṓdeka), from Proto-Indo-European *dwoΗdeḱm̥.

Cognate with Mariupol Greek дъо́дъэка (ðóðeka), дъо́дъека (ðóðjeka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈðo.ðe.ka/
• Hyphenation: δώ‧δε‧κα

Numeral

δώδεκα • (dódeka)

1. twelve

Derived terms

• δωδέκατος (dodékatos, “twelfth”)
• Δωδεκάνησα n pl (Dodekánisa, “Dodecanese”)

See also

• Greek number and measurement

Further reading

• δώδεκα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language