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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *ewī́kəti, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)wídḱm̥ti (“twenty”).
Cognate with Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśatí), Latin vīgintī, Old Armenian քսան (kʻsan), Welsh ugain, Tocharian A wiki, Albanian -zet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ěː.ko.si/ → /ˈi.ko.si/ → /ˈi.ko.si/
Numeral
εἴκοσῐ • (eíkosi)
- twenty
Descendants
References
- “εἴκοσι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εἴκοσι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “εἴκοσι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- εἴκοσι 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
- εἴκοσι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- εἴκοσι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “εἴκοσι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1501 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.