τεσσαράκοντα

Ancient Greek

**Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)**
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Cardinal: τεσσᾰρᾰ́κοντᾰ (tessarákonta) Ordinal: τεσσαρακοστός (tessarakostós) Adverbial: τεσσαρακοντάκις (tessarakontákis) Collective: τεσσαρακοντάς (tessarakontás)

Alternative forms

πετταράκοντα (pettarákonta) – Boeotian
τεσσεράκοντα (tesserákonta) – Ionic
τεταράκοντα (tetarákonta) – Doric
τετράϙοντα (tetráqonta) – Sicilian Ionic
τετρώκοντα (tetrṓkonta) – Doric
τετταράκοντα (tettarákonta) – Attic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥̄ḱomt, from earlier *kʷetwr̥-dḱomt (“four-ten”). Cognates include Sanskrit चत्वारिंशत् (catvāriṃśát), Latin quadrāgintā, Old Armenian քառասուն (kʿaṙasun).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tes.sa.rá.kon.ta/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tes.saˈra.kon.ta/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tes.saˈra.kon.ta/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tes.saˈra.kon.ta/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /te.saˈra.kon.da/

Numeral

τεσσᾰρᾰ́κοντᾰ • (tessarákonta)

forty

Descendants

Greek: σαράντα (saránta)

References

“τεσσαράκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“τεσσαράκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“τεσσαράκοντα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
τεσσαράκοντα 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
τεσσαράκοντα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“τεσσαράκοντα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G5062 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.
- forty idem, page 340.