τετράκις

See also: Τετράκις

Ancient Greek

**Ancient Greek numbers ^(edit)**
	40
← 3	δ’ 4	5 →
Cardinal: τέσσᾰρες (téssăres) Ordinal: τέτᾰρτος (tétărtos) Adverbial: τετρᾰ́κῐς (tetrắkĭs) Collective: τετρᾰ́ς (tetrắs)

Etymology

From τετρα- (tetra-) +‎ -άκις (-ákis).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /te.trá.kis/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /teˈtra.kis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /teˈtra.cis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /teˈtra.cis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /teˈtra.cis/

Adverb

τετράκῐς • (tetrákĭs)

four times

Derived terms

ἑξακισμῡριοτετρακισχῑλιοστός (hexakismūriotetrakiskhīliostós)
τετρακισεπίπεμπτος (tetrakisepípemptos)
τετρακισεφέβδομος (tetrakisephébdomos)
τετρακισμῡ́ριοι (tetrakismū́rioi)
τετρακισχῑ́λιοι (tetrakiskhī́lioi)

Descendants

Greek: τετράκις (tetrákis)
→ English: tetrakis, tetrakis-

Further reading

“τετράκις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
τετράκις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
τετράκις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
τετράκις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
“τετράκις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- four idem, page 341.

Greek

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /teˈtɾa.cis/

Adverb

τετράκις • (tetrákis)

fourfold, four times
τετράκις εκατομμύριο ― tetrákis ekatommýrio ― quadrillion (literally, “fourfold million”)