ἰνδικτίων

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• εἰνδικτίων (eindiktíōn), ἐνδικτίων (endiktíōn), ἐμδικτίων (emdiktíōn)
• ἴνδικτος (índiktos) m (from the rare Latin indictus/-ūs?)

Etymology

From Latin indictiō/-nis. Documented from the 2nd c. BC onwards, including the entire Byzantine period.

Noun

ἰνδικτίων • (indiktíōn) f (genitive ἰνδικτίωνος or ἰνδικτίονος); third declension

1. Roman indiction (tax cycle usually of fifteen years)

Descendants

• → Greek: ἰνδικτίων (indiktíōn) (learned)

References

• Dickey, Eleanor (2023) Latin loanwords in Ancient Greek: A lexicon and analysis, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 149
• “ἰνδικτίων”, in Trismegistos