τάλαντον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *tálanton, from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂ent-, from *telh₂-, whence also ἔτλην (étlēn, “to carry, endure”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tá.lan.ton/ → /ˈta.lan.ton/ → /ˈta.lan.don/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tá.lan.ton/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈta.lan.ton/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈta.lan.ton/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈta.lan.ton/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈta.lan.don/

Noun

τᾰ́λαντον • (tálanton) n (genitive τᾰλάντου); second declension

1. balance, scale (usually in the plural)
   1. tax paid for use of public scales
2. anything weighed
   1. talent (weight, often of gold or silver)
   2. the monetary sum equaling a talent (weight) of gold or silver

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ τᾰ́λαντον; τοῦ τᾰλάντου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τᾰ́λαντον tò tálanton	τὼ τᾰλάντω tṑ talántō	τᾰ̀ τᾰ́λαντᾰ tà tálanta
Genitive	τοῦ τᾰλάντου toû talántou	τοῖν τᾰλάντοιν toîn talántoin	τῶν τᾰλάντων tôn talántōn
Dative	τῷ τᾰλάντῳ tôi talántōi	τοῖν τᾰλάντοιν toîn talántoin	τοῖς τᾰλάντοις toîs talántois
Accusative	τὸ τᾰ́λαντον tò tálanton	τὼ τᾰλάντω tṑ talántō	τᾰ̀ τᾰ́λαντᾰ tà tálanta
Vocative	τᾰ́λαντον tálanton	τᾰλάντω talántō	τᾰ́λαντᾰ tálanta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἀταλάντη (Atalántē)
• ἀτάλαντος (atálantos)
• ἡμιτάλαντον (hēmitálanton)

 

Descendants

• Greek: τάλαντο (tálanto)
• → Latin: talentum
  • → English: talent
• → Old Armenian: տաղանդ (tałand)
  • Armenian: տաղանդ (taġand)
• → Russian: тала́нт (talánt)

References

• “τάλαντον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τάλαντον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τάλαντον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τάλαντον 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
• τάλαντον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G5007 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.
  • balance idem, page 59.
  • pound idem, page 630.
  • scale idem, page 736.
  • talent idem, page 854.
• τάλαντον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN