δώδεκα

Ancient Greek

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Cardinal: δώδεκᾰ (dṓdekă)     Ordinal: δωδέκᾰτος (dōdékătos)     Adverbial: δωδεκᾰ́κῐς (dōdekắkĭs)     Collective: δωδεκᾰ́ς (dōdekắs)

Alternative forms

• δυόδεκο (duódeko) — Arcadian
• δυοκαίδεκα (duokaídeka), δυώδεκα (duṓdeka) — Epic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dwoΗdeḱm̥. Cognates include Sanskrit द्वादश (dvā́daśa) and Latin duodecim.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dɔ̌ː.de.ka/ → /ˈðo.ðe.ka/ → /ˈðo.ðe.ka/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dɔ̌ː.de.ka/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.de.ka/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈðo.ðe.ka/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈðo.ðe.ka/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈðo.ðe.ka/

Numeral

δώδεκᾰ • (dṓdekă) (ordinal δωδέκᾰτος, adverbial δωδεκᾰ́κῐς)

1. twelve

Descendants

• Greek: δώδεκα (dódeka)
• Mariupol Greek: дъо́дъэка (ðóðeka), дъо́дъека (ðóðjeka)
• Sicilian: dùdica-

References

• “δώδεκα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δώδεκα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δώδεκα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δώδεκα 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
• δώδεκα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δώδεκα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “δώδεκα”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1427 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.
  • dozen idem, page 249.
  • twelve idem, page 903.
• δώδεκα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Greek cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : δώδεκα (dódeka)     Ordinal : δωδέκατος (dodékatos)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δώδεκα (dṓdeka), from Proto-Indo-European *dwoΗdeḱm̥.

Cognate with Mariupol Greek дъо́дъэка (ðóðeka), дъо́дъека (ðóðjeka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈðo.ðe.ka/
• Hyphenation: δώ‧δε‧κα

Numeral

δώδεκα • (dódeka)

1. twelve

Derived terms

• δωδέκατος (dodékatos, “twelfth”)
• Δωδεκάνησα n pl (Dodekánisa, “Dodecanese”)

Related terms

• δωδεκαδικός (dodekadikós, “duodecimal”)
• δωδεκάωρος (dodekáoros, “twelve-hour”)

See also

• Greek number and measurement

Further reading

• δώδεκα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language