δέκα

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).

δέκᾰ • (dékă) (ordinal δέκᾰτος, adverbial δεκᾰ́κῐς)

1. ten

• Greek: δέκα (déka)
• Mariupol Greek: дъэ́ка (ðéka)
• → English: deca-

• “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 (2006–2025)
• “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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ten idem, page 860.

From Ancient Greek δέκα (déka), from Proto-Hellenic *dékə, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

Cognate with Mariupol Greek дъэ́ка (ðéka).

• IPA^(key): /ˈðe.ka/
• Hyphenation: δέ‧κα

δέκα • (déka) (invariable)

1. ten

• Greek number and measurement

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