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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *hwéks, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Cognates include Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ), Old Armenian վեց (vecʻ), Latin sex, and Old English six (English six).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /héks/ → /eks/ → /eks/
Numeral
ἕξ • (héx) (ordinal ἕκτος, adverbial ἑξᾰ́κῐς)
- six
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “ἕξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἕξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἕξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἕξ 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
- ἕξ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἕξ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἕξ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1803 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.