ἐννέα

See also: εννέα

Ancient Greek

**Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)**
	90
← 8	θʹ 9	10 →
Cardinal: ἐννέᾰ (ennéa) Ordinal: ἔνᾰτος (énatos) Adverbial: ἐνᾰ́κῐς (enákis) Collective: ἐννεᾰ́ς (enneás)

Alternative forms

ἐννῆ (ennê) – Doric
ἔννεᾰ (énnea) – Aeolic
ἐννία (ennía) – Boeotian
ἐννῆᾰ (ennêa), hεννέα (hennéa)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *ennéwə, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. Cognates include Old Armenian ինն (inn), Sanskrit नवन् (navan), Latin novem, and Old English nigon (English nine).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /en.né.a/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /enˈne.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /enˈne.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /enˈne.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈne.a/

Numeral

ἐννέᾰ • (ennéa) (ordinal ἔνᾰτος, adverbial ἐνᾰ́κῐς)

nine

Derived terms

ἐννῆμαρ (ennêmar)

Descendants

Byzantine Greek:
- Greek: εννιά (enniá), εννέα (ennéa)
- Mariupol Greek: энэ́я (enéja)
- → Romani: enia, enǎ; enja, inja
  - Kalo Finnish Romani: enja
→ English: ennea-

References

“ἐννέᾰ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἐννέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἐννέα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἐννέα 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
ἐννέα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἐννέα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
“ἐννέα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G1767 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.
- nine idem, page 558.