ἑβδομήκοντα

See also: εβδομήκοντα

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

		700
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		7
Cardinal: ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomḗkonta)     Ordinal: ἑβδομηκοστός (hebdomēkostós)     Adverbial: ἑβδομηκοντάκις (hebdomēkontákis)     Collective: ἑβδομηκοντάς (hebdomēkontás)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *hebdmākontə, from Proto-Indo-European *septm̥-ḱómt-h₂, from *septḿ̥(d)ḱomt. Cognates include Sanskrit सप्तति (saptati), Latin septuāgintā and Old Armenian եօթանասուն (eōtʻanasun).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /heb.do.mɛ̌ː.kon.ta/ → /eβ.ðoˈmi.kon.ta/ → /ev.ðoˈmi.kon.da/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /heb.do.mɛ̌ː.kon.ta/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)eb.doˈme̝.kon.ta/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eβ.ðoˈmi.kon.ta/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ev.ðoˈmi.kon.ta/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ev.ðoˈmi.kon.da/

Numeral

ἑβδομήκοντᾰ • (hebdomḗkonta) (ordinal ἑβδομηκοστός, adverbial ἑβδομηκοντᾰ́κῐς)

1. seventy
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.32
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.7.8

Derived terms

• Ἑβδομηκοντᾰκωμῆται (Hebdomēkontakōmêtai)

References

• “ἑβδομήκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἑβδομήκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἑβδομήκοντα 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
• ἑβδομήκοντα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1440 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.
  • seventy idem, page 759.