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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εἴκοσῐ (eíkosĭ, “twenty”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eː.kás/ → /iˈkas/ → /iˈkas/
Noun
εἰκᾰ́ς • (eikắs) f (genitive εἰκᾰ́δος); third declension
- The twentieth day of the month
- (in the plural) The last ten days of the month
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “εἰκάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εἰκάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εἰκάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- εἰκάς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- εἰκάς in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften