ἑπτά

See also: επτά

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)

	70
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Cardinal: ἑπτᾰ́ (heptá)     Ordinal: ἕβδομος (hébdomos)     Adverbial: ἑπτᾰ́κῐς (heptákis)     Collective: ἑπτᾰ́ς (heptás), ἑβδομᾰ́ς (hebdomás)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *heptə́, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥. Cognates include Latin septem, Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán), Old Armenian եաւթն (eawtʻn), Old English seofon (English seven).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hep.tá/ → /epˈta/ → /epˈta/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hep.tá/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)epˈta/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /epˈta/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /epˈta/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /epˈta/

Numeral

ἑπτᾰ́ • (heptá) (ordinal ἕβδομος, adverbial ἑπτάκις)

1. seven.

Derived terms

• ἑπταβόειος (heptabóeios)

Descendants

• → English: hepta-
• Greek: επτά (eptá), εφτά (eftá)
• Mariupol Greek: эфта́ (eftá)
• → Romani: efta
  • Tavringer Romani: jeffta, efta

References

• “ἑπτά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἑπτά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἑπτά”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἑπτά 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
• ἑπτά in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἑπτά”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2033 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.
  • seven idem, page 759.