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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥̄ḱomt, from earlier *kʷetwr̥-dḱomt (“four-ten”). Cognates include Sanskrit चत्वारिंशत् (catvāriṃśát), Latin quadrāgintā, Old Armenian քառասուն (kʻaṙasun).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tes.sa.rá.kon.ta/ → /tes.saˈra.kon.ta/ → /te.saˈra.kon.da/
Numeral
τεσσᾰρᾰ́κοντᾰ • (tessarákonta)
- forty
Descendants
References
- “τεσσαράκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τεσσαράκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τεσσαράκοντα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τεσσαράκοντα 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
- τεσσαράκοντα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τεσσαράκοντα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5062 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.