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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *heptə́, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥. Cognates include Latin septem, Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán), Old Armenian եաւթն (eawtʻn), Old English seofon (English seven).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hep.tá/ → /epˈta/ → /epˈta/
Numeral
ἑπτᾰ́ • (heptá) (ordinal ἕβδομος, adverbial ἑπτάκις)
- seven.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “ἑπτά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἑπτά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἑπτά”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἑπτά 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
- ἑπτά in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἑπτά”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2033 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.