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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *dékə , from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ . Cognates include Sanskrit दश ( dáśa ) , Latin decem , Old Armenian տասն ( tasn ) and Old English tīen (English ten ).
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /dé.ka/ → /ˈðe.ka/ → /ˈðe.ka/
Numeral
δέκᾰ • (déka ) (ordinal δέκᾰτος , adverbial δεκᾰ́κῐς )
ten
Derived terms
Descendants
References
“δέκᾰ ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940 ) A Greek–English Lexicon , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“δέκα ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889 ) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon , New York: Harper & Brothers
“δέκα ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891 ) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges , New York: Harper and Brothers
δέκα 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
δέκα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924 ) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
δέκα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
“δέκα ”, in Slater, William J. (1969 ) Lexicon to Pindar , Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G1176 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 .
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δέκα ( déka ) , from Proto-Hellenic *dékə , from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ .
Cognate with Mariupol Greek дъэ́ка ( ðéka ) , дъе́ка ( ðjéka ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈðe.ka/
Hyphenation: δέ‧κα
Numeral
δέκα • (déka ) (invariable )
ten
Coordinate terms
αποδεκατίζω ( apodekatízo , “ to decimate ” ) δεκάδα f ( dekáda , “ decade, group of ten units ” ) δεκαδικός ( dekadikós , “ decimal ” , adjective ) δεκάδραχμος ( dekádrachmos , “ ten drachmas worth ” , adjective ) δεκαετία f ( dekaetía , “ decade, ten years ” ) δεκαήμερο n ( dekaḯmero , “ ten days ” ) δεκάλεπτο n ( dekálepto , “ ten cent coin ” ) δεκάλεπτος ( dekáleptos , “ ten minutes ” , adjective ) δεκάλογος m ( dekálogos , “ decalogue ” ) δεκαπλασιάζω ( dekaplasiázo , “ to decuple ” ) δεκαπλάσιος ( dekaplásios ) δεκαπλάσιος ( dekaplásios , “ tenfold ” , adjective ) δεκάρα ( dekára , “ ten lepta, ten cents ” ) δέκατο ( dékato ) δέκατος ( dékatos , “ tenth ” , numeral ) Ι΄ ( “ ten ” , numeral )
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