κεντηνάριον
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Latin centēnārium, neuter of centēnārius (“containing a hundred”)
Pronunciation edit
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cen.tiˈna.ri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /cen.diˈna.ri.on/
Noun edit
κεντηνάριον • (kentēnárion) n (genitive κεντηναρίου); second declension
- (Byzantine) A unit of weight equal to 100 librae (Roman pounds), corresponding to about 32.7 kilograms or 72 avoirdupois pounds.
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | τὸ κεντηνάριον tò kentēnárion |
τᾰ̀ κεντηνάριᾰ tà kentēnária |
Genitive | τοῦ κεντηναρίου toû kentēnaríou |
τῶν κεντηναρίων tôn kentēnaríōn |
Dative | τῷ κεντηναρίῳ tôi kentēnaríōi |
τοῖς κεντηναρίοις toîs kentēnaríois |
Accusative | τὸ κεντηνάριον tò kentēnárion |
τᾰ̀ κεντηνάριᾰ tà kentēnária |
Vocative | κεντηνάριον kentēnárion |
κεντηνάριᾰ kentēnária |
Descendants edit
- → Classical Syriac: ܩܰܢܛܺܝܪܳܐ (qanṭīrā), ܩܰܢܛܺܝܢܳܪܳܐ (qanṭīnārā)
- → Arabic: قِنْطَار (qinṭār) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading edit
- κεντηνάριον - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
- “κεντηνάριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press