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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (whence also τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”)) + -ᾰ́ς (-ás).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te.trás/ → /teˈtras/ → /teˈtras/
Noun
τετρᾰ́ς • (tetrás) f (genitive τετρᾰ́δος); third declension
- the number four
- the fourth day of the month
- the fourth day of the week
- a period of four days
- the four quarters of the moon
- tetrarchy
- four-leaved pamphlet, quaternion
- Synonym: τετράδιον (tetrádion)
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References
- “τετράς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τετράς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τετράς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “τετράς”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 1078b