-ακόσιοι
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- -ᾱκάσιοι (-ākásioi) — Arcadocypriot
- -ᾱκάτιοι (-ākátioi) — Doric
- -ηκόσιοι (-ēkósioi) — Ionic
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *-kətio- (compare *hekətón), from Proto-Indo-European *-ḱm̥tiyo- or *-ḱm̥tiHo-, from *ḱm̥tóm (“hundred”). The preceding long ā as well as the o vocalism in Attic–Ionic are taken over from the tens, e.g. τριᾱ́κοντα (triā́konta, “thirty”).[1]
Suffix
-ᾱκόσῐοι • (-ākósĭoi) m (feminine -ᾱκόσῐαι, neuter -ᾱκόσῐα); first/second declension
- hundred
- τρι- (tri-) + -ακόσιοι (-akósioi) → τριᾱκόσιοι (triākósioi)
Derived terms
Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ακόσιοι
References
- ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 395, page 424