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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *hekətón, from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-ḱm̥tóm (“one hundred”), from *sem- + *ḱm̥tóm. The vowel of the first syllable is explained as from ἕν (hén). Cognates include Old English hundred (English hundred), Latin centum, Sanskrit शत (śatá), and Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬀 (sata). According to Leiden scholars, another possibility is derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ḱm̥tóm, which is a regular outcome of *dḱm̥tóm if Lubotsky's Law is taken to be true.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /he.ka.tón/ → /e.kaˈton/ → /e.kaˈton/
Numeral
ἑκᾰτόν • (hekatón) (ordinal ἑκᾰτοστός, adverbial ἑκᾰτοντᾰ́κις)
- hundred
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
- διακόσιοι (diakósioi, “two hundred”), σ΄
- τριακόσιοι (triakósioi, “three hundred”) (triakósioi), τ΄
- τετρακόσιοι (tetrakósioi, “four hundred”) (tetrakósioi), υ΄
- πεντακόσιοι (pentakósioi, “five hundred”) (pentakósioi), φ΄
- ἑξακόσιοι (hexakósioi) (hexakósioi, “six hundred”), χ΄
- ἑπτακόσιοι (heptakósioi) (heptakósioi, “seven hundred”), ψ΄
- ὀκτακόσιοι (oktakósioi, “eight hundred”), ω΄
- ἐνακόσιοι (enakósioi, “nine hundred”), ϡ΄
References
- “ἑκατόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἑκατόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἑκατόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἑκατόν 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
- ἑκατόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἑκατόν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἑκατόν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1540 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.