κεντηνάριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Latin centēnārium, neuter of centēnārius (“containing a hundred”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /cen.diˈna.ri.on/

• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cen.tiˈna.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /cen.diˈna.ri.on/

Noun

κεντηνάριον • (kentēnárion) n (genitive κεντηναρίου); second declension

1. (Byzantine) A unit of weight equal to 100 librae (Roman pounds), corresponding to about 32.7 kilograms or 72 avoirdupois pounds.

Declension

Second declension of τὸ κεντηνάριον; τοῦ κεντηναρίου (Byzantine)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
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

• → Classical Syriac: ܩܰܢܛܺܝܪܳܐ (qanṭīrā), ܩܰܢܛܺܝܢܳܪܳܐ (qanṭīnārā)
  • → Arabic: قِنْطَار (qinṭār) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “κεντηνάριον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “κεντηνάριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press