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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the Proto-Indo-European *sweḱsḱomth₂, from the earlier *swéḱs-dḱomt-h₂ (“six-ten”); see *swéḱs(d)ḱomt. Cognate with the Latin sexāgintā and the Old Armenian վաթսուն (vatʻsun).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hek.sɛ̌ː.kon.ta/ → /ekˈsi.kon.ta/ → /ekˈsi.kon.da/
Numeral
ἑξήκοντᾰ • (hexḗkonta) (ordinal ἑξηκοστός, adverbial ἑξηκοντάκις)
- sixty
Derived terms
Descendants
Noun
ἑξήκοντᾰ • (hexḗkonta) m pl (indeclinable)
- a college of γελωτοποιοί at Athens
Declension
οἱ ἑξήκοντᾰ hoi hexḗkonta
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τῶν ἑξήκοντᾰ tôn hexḗkonta
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τοῖς ἑξήκοντᾰ toîs hexḗkonta
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τοὺς ἑξήκοντᾰ toùs hexḗkonta
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ἑξήκοντᾰ hexḗkonta
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References
- “ἑξήκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἑξήκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἑξήκοντα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἑξήκοντα 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
- ἑξήκοντα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G1835 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.