τετράκις

See also: Τετράκις

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

	40
←  3	δʹ 4	5  →
Cardinal: τέσσᾰρες (téssares)     Ordinal: τέτᾰρτος (tétartos)     Adverbial: τετρᾰ́κῐς (tetrákis)     Collective: τετρᾰ́ς (tetrás)

Etymology

From τετρα- (tetra-) +‎ -άκις (-ákis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /te.trá.kis/ → /teˈtra.cis/ → /teˈtra.cis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /te.trá.kis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /teˈtra.kis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /teˈtra.cis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /teˈtra.cis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /teˈtra.cis/

Adverb

τετράκῐς • (tetrákis)

1. four times

Derived terms

• ἑξακισμῡριοτετρακισχῑλιοστός (hexakismūriotetrakiskhīliostós)
• τετρακισεπίπεμπτος (tetrakisepípemptos)
• τετρακισεφέβδομος (tetrakisephébdomos)
• τετρακισμῡ́ριοι (tetrakismū́rioi)
• τετρακισχῑ́λιοι (tetrakiskhī́lioi)

 

Descendants

• Greek: τετράκις (tetrákis)
• → English: tetrakis, tetrakis-

Further reading

• “τετράκις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τετράκις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• τετράκις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τετράκις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “τετράκις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • four idem, page 341.

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teˈtɾa.cis/

Adverb

τετράκις • (tetrákis)

1. fourfold, four times

   τετράκις εκατομμύριο ― tetrákis ekatommýrio ― quadrillion (literally, “fourfold million”)