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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *oktōḱomt, from earlier *oḱto(w)-dḱomt (“eight-ten”), influenced by ὀγδόη (ogdóē) in analogy with ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomḗkonta). Cognate with Latin octōgintā, Old Armenian ութսուն (utʻsun).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oɡ.do.ɛ̌ː.kon.ta/ → /oɣ.ðoˈi.kon.ta/ → /oɣ.ðoˈi.kon.da/
Numeral
ὀγδοήκοντᾰ • (ogdoḗkonta)
- eighty
Descendants
References
- “ὀγδοήκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀγδοήκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀγδοήκοντα 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
- G3589 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.