τάλαντον

From Proto-Hellenic *tálanton, from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂ent-, from *telh₂-, whence also ἔτλην (étlēn, “to carry, endure”).

τᾰ́λαντον • (tálanton) n (genitive τᾰλάντου); second declension

1. balance, scale (usually in the plural)
   1. tax paid for use of public scales
2. anything weighed
   1. talent (weight, often of gold or silver)
   2. the monetary sum equaling a talent (weight) of gold or silver

• Greek: τάλαντο (tálanto)
• → Latin: talentum
  • → English: talent
• → Old Armenian: տաղանդ (tałand)
  • Armenian: տաղանդ (taġand)
• → Russian: тала́нт (talánt)

• “τάλαντον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τάλαντον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τάλαντον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τάλαντον 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
• τάλαντον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G5007 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.
  • balance idem, page 59.
  • pound idem, page 630.
  • scale idem, page 736.
  • talent idem, page 854.
• τάλαντον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN