δέκα
Ancient Greek
    
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|     Cardinal: δέκᾰ (déka) Ordinal: δέκᾰτος (dékatos) Adverbial: δεκᾰ́κῐς (dekákis) Collective: δεκᾰ́ς (dekás)  | ||||
Etymology
    
From Proto-Hellenic *dékə, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognates include Sanskrit दश (dáśa), Latin decem, Old Armenian տասն (tasn) and Old English tīen (English ten).
Pronunciation
    
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dé.ka/
 - (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈde.ka/
 - (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈðe.ka/
 - (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈðe.ka/
 - (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈðe.ka/
 
Derived terms
    
- δυοκαίδεκα (duokaídeka)
 - τεσσᾰρεσκαίδεκᾰ (tessareskaídeka)
 
Descendants
    
References
    
- “δέκᾰ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
 - “δέκα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
 - “δέκα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
 - δέκα 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
 - δέκα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
 - δέκα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
 - “δέκα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
 - G1176 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
 - Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. 
- ten idem, page 860.
 
 
Greek
    
| < θ΄ | ι΄ | ια΄ > | 
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|     Cardinal : δέκα (déka) Ordinal : δέκατος (dékatos)  | ||
Etymology
    
From Ancient Greek δέκα (déka), from Proto-Hellenic *dékə, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.
Cognate with Mariupol Greek дъэ́ка (ðéka), дъе́ка (ðjéka).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈðe.ka/
 - Hyphenation: δέ‧κα
 
Coordinate terms
    
- Greek number and measurement
 
Related terms
    
- αποδεκατίζω (apodekatízo, “to decimate”)
 - δεκάδα f (dekáda, “decade, group of ten units”)
 - δεκαδικός (dekadikós, “decimal”, adjective)
 - δεκάδραχμος (dekádrachmos, “ten drachmas worth”, adjective)
 - δεκαετία f (dekaetía, “decade, ten years”)
 - δεκαήμερο n (dekaḯmero, “ten days”)
 - δεκάλεπτο n (dekálepto, “ten cent coin”)
 - δεκάλεπτος (dekáleptos, “ten minutes”, adjective)
 - δεκάλογος m (dekálogos, “decalogue”)
 - δεκαπλασιάζω (dekaplasiázo, “to decuple”)
 - δεκαπλάσιος (dekaplásios)
 - δεκαπλάσιος (dekaplásios, “tenfold”, adjective)
 - δεκάρα (dekára, “ten lepta, ten cents”)
 - δέκατο (dékato)
 - δέκατος (dékatos, “tenth”, numeral)
 - Ι΄ (“ten”, numeral)
 
Further reading
    
- δέκα - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
 
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