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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kʷétwores, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀤𐀵𐀫 (qe-to-ro), Sanskrit चतुर् (catur), Old Armenian չորք (čʻorkʻ), Latin quattuor, and Old English fēower (English four).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tés.sa.res/ → /ˈtes.sa.res/ → /ˈte.sa.res/
Numeral
τέσσᾰρες • (téssăres) (ordinal τέτᾰρτος, adverbial τετρᾰ́κῐς)
- four
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References
- “τέσσᾰρες”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τέσσαρες”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τέσσαρες”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τέσσαρες 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
- τέσσαρες in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τέσσαρες”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5064 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.