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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *hebdmākontə, from Proto-Indo-European *septm̥-ḱómt-h₂, from *septḿ̥(d)ḱomt. Cognates include Sanskrit सप्तति (saptati), Latin septuāgintā and Old Armenian եօթանասուն (eōtʻanasun).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /heb.do.mɛ̌ː.kon.ta/ → /eβ.ðoˈmi.kon.ta/ → /ev.ðoˈmi.kon.da/
Numeral
ἑβδομήκοντᾰ • (hebdomḗkonta) (ordinal ἑβδομηκοστός, adverbial ἑβδομηκοντᾰ́κῐς)
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Derived terms
References
- “ἑβδομήκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἑβδομήκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἑβδομήκοντα 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
- ἑβδομήκοντα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1440 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.