ἑκατόν

See also: εκατόν

Ancient Greek

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Cardinal: ἑκᾰτόν (hekatón)     Ordinal: ἑκᾰτοστός (hekatostós)     Adverbial: ἑκᾰτοντᾰ́κις (hekatontákis)     Collective: ἑκατοντάς (hekatontás)

Alternative forms

• ἑκοτόν (hekotón) — Arcadocypriot

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *hekətón, from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-ḱm̥tóm (“one hundred”), from *sem- + *ḱm̥tóm. The vowel of the first syllable is explained as from ἕν (hén). Cognates include Old English hundred (English hundred), Latin centum, Sanskrit शत (śatá), and Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬀‎ (sata). According to Leiden scholars, another possibility is derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ḱm̥tóm, which is a regular outcome of *dḱm̥tóm if Lubotsky's Law is taken to be true.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /he.ka.tón/ → /e.kaˈton/ → /e.kaˈton/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /he.ka.tón/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)e.kaˈton/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.kaˈton/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.kaˈton/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.kaˈton/

Numeral

ἑκᾰτόν • (hekatón) (ordinal ἑκᾰτοστός, adverbial ἑκᾰτοντᾰ́κις)

1. hundred

Derived terms

• ἑκᾰτον- (hekaton-)
• ἑκᾰτοντο- (hekatonto-)

Descendants

• Greek: εκατό (ekató)
• Mariupol Greek: като́ (kató)
• → English: hecato-

See also

• διακόσιοι (diakósioi, “two hundred”), σ΄
• τριακόσιοι (triakósioi, “three hundred”) (triakósioi), τ΄
• τετρακόσιοι (tetrakósioi, “four hundred”) (tetrakósioi), υ΄
• πεντακόσιοι (pentakósioi, “five hundred”) (pentakósioi), φ΄
• ἑξακόσιοι (hexakósioi) (hexakósioi, “six hundred”), χ΄
• ἑπτακόσιοι (heptakósioi) (heptakósioi, “seven hundred”), ψ΄
• ὀκτακόσιοι (oktakósioi, “eight hundred”), ω΄
• ἐνακόσιοι (enakósioi, “nine hundred”), ϡ΄

References

• “ἑκατόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἑκατόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἑκατόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἑκατόν 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
• ἑκατόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἑκατόν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
• “ἑκατόν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1540 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.
  • hundred idem, page 410.