-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 • (-ākósĭoim (feminine -ᾱκόσῐαι, neuter -ᾱκόσῐα); first/second declension

  1. hundred
    τρι- (tri-) + ‎-ακόσιοι (-akósioi) → ‎τριᾱκόσιοι (triākósioi)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 395, page 424