ὀγδοήκοντα

See also: ογδοήκοντα

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

	800
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	8
Cardinal: ὀγδοήκοντα (ogdoḗkonta)     Ordinal: ὀγδοηκοστός (ogdoēkostós)

Alternative forms

• ὀγδώκοντᾰ (ogdṓkonta) — Ionic, Doric
• ὀδώκοντᾰ (odṓkonta)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *oktōḱomt, from earlier *oḱto(w)-dḱomt (“eight-ten”), influenced by ὀγδόη (ogdóē) in analogy with ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomḗkonta). Cognate with Latin octōgintā, Old Armenian ութսուն (utʻsun).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oɡ.do.ɛ̌ː.kon.ta/ → /oɣ.ðoˈi.kon.ta/ → /oɣ.ðoˈi.kon.da/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /oɡ.do.ɛ̌ː.kon.ta/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oɡ.doˈe̝.kon.ta/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oɣ.ðoˈi.kon.ta/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oɣ.ðoˈi.kon.ta/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oɣ.ðoˈi.kon.da/

Numeral

ὀγδοήκοντᾰ • (ogdoḗkonta)

1. eighty

Related terms

• ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”)
• δέκα (déka, “ten”)

Descendants

• Greek: ογδόντα (ogdónta)
• → Greek: ὀγδοήκοντα (ogdoḗkonta) (Katharevousa)

References

• “ὀγδοήκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀγδοήκοντα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀγδοήκοντα 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
• G3589 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.
  • eighty idem, page 263.