τεσσαράκοντα

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

	400
←  30	μʹ 40	50  →
	4
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 (kʻaṙasun).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tes.sa.rá.kon.ta/ → /tes.saˈra.kon.ta/ → /te.saˈra.kon.da/

• (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)

1. 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • forty idem, page 340.